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Hi Folks,
I’ve recently started a discussion group on Blog Catalog called “The Grammar Group.” If you haven’t been to BC yet, I highly recommend it. You are bound to find many bloggers of similar and differing interests that will welcome you. It’s a friendly, supportive and informative gang, but mostly it’s a fun group of [...]

Most of us use Nutty English expression to mean something entirely different than what we are actually saying. 
What is said-What is meant-Why it’s nutty

I could care less – I couldn’t care less - think about it. 
 
I miss not seeing you – I miss seeing you – unless you’re breaking up. 
 
A non-stop flight – A flight with no intermediate [...]

I thought this guy wrote well enough to be included in my English is a nutty language series . . .

A plan for the improvement of spelling in the English language

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter “c” would [...]

If uplift is the same as lift up, why are upset and set up opposite in meaning?
 
Why are pertinent and impertinent, canny and uncanny, and famous and infamous neither opposites nor the same?
 
How can raise and raze and reckless and wreckless be opposites when each pair contains the same sound?
 
Why does six, seven, eight, and [...]

What’s so hard about learning English? 
Nothing compared to teaching English as a Second Language to really
smart students who love to ask “Why?”
 
Day 1 lesson plan – Explain why:
quicksand is slow
A guinea pig is not a pig, and it is not from Guinea.
A boxing ring is square
the blackbird hen is brown,
blackboards can be [...]

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it.
On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute.
More [...]

1.   A writer must not shift your point of view.
2.   Don’t overuse exclamation marks!!
3.   Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
3.   Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
4.   If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, [...]

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1.   Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispeling and to catch typograhpical errers.
2.   Don’t repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
3.   Don’t be redundant.
4.   Use the apostrophe in it’s proper place and omit it when its not needed.
5.   Don’t never use no double negatives.
6.   Poofread carefully to [...]

 
1.      The passive voice should not be used.
2.      Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
3.      Don’t repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
4.      Who needs rhetorical questions?
5.      Don’t use commas, that, are not, necessary.
6.      Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can [...]