Oh, my five regular visitors, I’ve neglected this site for too long. It’s not that grammar has gotten better, it’s just that there are so many other things to worry about these days. Things like money. Blogs are certainly not fields of dreams—I’ve built one, placed some ads, generated some content, and have made a whole $10. My partner has disappeared but I don’t begrudge him (much).
Test Your Grammar Smarts!
Grammatical errors can do terrible things to your professional credibility. See how many of these common mistakes you can correct.
Here is a series of sentences containing common grammatical errors. See if you can spot them.
1. We started small, but as the company has grown over the past ten years.
2. The reason we cancelled the picnic was because there was a thunderstorm.
3. I have never and will never go skydiving.
4. I have waited for this opportunity for year’s.
5. None of the executives were available to meet the visitor.
6. We had to choose between three good candidates for the job.
7. The amount of people taking the subway is growing all the time.
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Why So Sad, Tres Hermanos?
A Facebook friend and high school classmate, Jordan Reed, spotted this unfortunate punctuation choice on the menu at Tres Hermanos in downtown Sacramento. No, the traditional sauces aren’t sad. It’s just that the colon and parentheses are redundant. The next line read: “sauce 1, sauce 2, sauce 3).”
Thanks to Jordan for the pic.
