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Grammar Giggle – What Kind of Potatoes?

By [email protected] | October 29, 2018 - 6:15 AM |October 28, 2018 grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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I took this picture at a pop-up restaurant near my office. I realize this is a temporary sign, but it is still important that it is correct.

Grammar Giggle – Our You Sure You Spelled Are Correctly?

By [email protected] | October 26, 2018 - 6:15 AM |October 21, 2018 grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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My sister took this picture in her work elevator. I take comfort in the fact that someone else knew enough to correct the error. Too bad they didn’t have a red Proof That sharpie!

Grammar Giggle – Your Not Speaking My Language

By [email protected] | October 19, 2018 - 6:15 AM |October 19, 2018 confusing words, grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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A friend sent this one to me. This is the exact opposite of the error usually made with the you/you’re/your choices.

Grammar Giggle – Art’s and Sport’s

By [email protected] | October 8, 2018 - 6:15 AM |October 7, 2018 apostrophes, grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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This was in a restaurant ad that I found on their homepage. One more time, you don’t make words plural by adding an apostrophe.

Grammar Giggle Week – Telsa

By [email protected] | September 19, 2018 - 6:15 AM |September 16, 2018 grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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Yes, this is from the same local news station. I don’t imagine Elon Musk would be very happy about this one.

Grammar Giggle Week – Miscalulated

By [email protected] | September 18, 2018 - 6:15 AM |September 16, 2018 grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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Another entry from my local news station.

Grammar Giggle Week – Day 1

By [email protected] | September 17, 2018 - 6:15 AM |September 16, 2018 grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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Since I will be getting ready for and attending my NALS Conference here in the Phoenix area, this will be Grammar Giggle week! Today’s Grammar Giggle is from my local news station. Since I didn’t care enough about this story to wait for it, I’m not positive that the first word is supposed to be “Is,” but it doesn’t make any sense the way it is here.

Grammar Giggle – It’s

By [email protected] | September 14, 2018 - 6:15 AM |September 9, 2018 contractions, grammar giggles, legal assistant, legal proofreading, legal secretary, misspellings, paralegal, proofreading

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This is a very common error I see. The apostrophe here is for a contraction. It’s is a contraction for “It is.” But that doesn’t fit in the restaurant’s advertisement. “Its” is the possessive form of the pronoun “it.”