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Category: Grammar Bites

Grammar Bites: What Did You Say? Avoiding Malapropisms

October 18, 2013
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 |  Grammar Bites, Malapropism of the Day

Almost But Not Quite The malapropism moment: we’ve all been there. Someone is talking and they use an expression that …

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Grammar Bites: Opposites Attract

September 25, 2013
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English is full of fun and useful phrases that can be more trouble than they’re worth. Sometimes things with completely …

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Grammar Bites: Homina Homina Homonyms!

January 29, 2013
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 |  Grammar Bites

A lot of the issues that people have with English involve the difficulty of transferring knowledge of spoken English to …

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Grammar Bites: Foreign Fusses

January 22, 2013
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 |  Grammar Bites

English is a fantastic mishmash of words from many different languages. “Borrow words”, or words lifted wholesale from other languages, …

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Grammar Bites: One Letter

December 11, 2012
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One letter can make a lot of difference. There are many words that people misuse unintentionally, among them lose and …

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Grammar Bites: Take the Reigns/Reins

December 7, 2012
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According to The Free Dictionary, a malapropism is “the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one of similar …

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