Category Archives: *grammar posts

Effective Practices For Getting Readers To Return To Your Blog

Posted on November 22, 2015 by robertstevenson

The best way to get your visitors to return to your blog is to reward them with your writing. All the available social networks and blog marketing tools will do little to increase return visits to your blogs unless you … Continue reading →

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Words: mixed up meanings

Posted on March 3, 2009 by robertstevenson

English has got to be one of the toughest languages to learn. Even our exceptions to the rules have exceptions. Here are some of my recent mental meanderings on mixed up meanings. Confusing homophones 1.                  This bimonthly publication comes out … Continue reading →

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Eight Interesting Words

Posted on February 12, 2009 by robertstevenson

 How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in … Continue reading →

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Twelve Interesting Words

Posted on July 31, 2008 by robertstevenson

Twelve Interesting Words  How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more … Continue reading →

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Overcome the comma!

Posted on July 12, 2008 by robertstevenson

Puny but powerful, the itsy bitsy comma remains a foe to many folks striving to use good grammar. The comma is among the most confusing and misused punctuation marks in English grammar. Some people place a comma whenever they pause … Continue reading →

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Eleven Interesting Words

Posted on June 30, 2008 by robertstevenson

 How many words are in your vocabulary? The average high school graduate is said to know about 10,000 words. The average 4-year college graduate is said to know about 20,000 words. Do you have room for any more words in … Continue reading →

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We all know they exist, but we do not speak their names

Posted on May 16, 2008 by robertstevenson

We all know they exist, but we don’t speak of them. They are used everyday, but we dare not say them aloud. Their very existence requires us to be silent. And we comply without question. Most of them have no … Continue reading →

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English is nutty 5

Posted on May 12, 2008 by robertstevenson

A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.                                                                         A will is a dead giveaway. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. A backward poet writes inverse. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, … Continue reading →

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Challenge yourself: Grammar Quiz

Posted on May 10, 2008 by robertstevenson

Preview the questions; then take the quiz Choose precisely the right word in the following: 1. What was the (affect/effect) of the victory? 2. (Because/Since) he lied, he was expelled. 3. We need to go four miles (further/farther) before we … Continue reading →

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Join the Grammar Group

Posted on April 30, 2008 by robertstevenson

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 … Continue reading →

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English is Nutty 4

Posted on April 27, 2008 by robertstevenson

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 … Continue reading →

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English is a nutty language (part three) guest writer

Posted on April 25, 2008 by robertstevenson

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 … Continue reading →

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English is nutty 2

Posted on April 24, 2008 by robertstevenson

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 … Continue reading →

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