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Tag: grammar nazi

Stage 1-f — on Subjects — up *real* close

In this final post in Stage 1, we’ll wrap up our foundation, as I’ve been calling this stage, with a much-closer look at the subject, the predicate’s mate in the main clause (aka independent clause).  But, before we get into this “subjective” exploration (and that’s more than a pun, as you will soon see), let’s…

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Welcome to our “Movement”

Hello Readers, soon to be “Writers-in-Movement” Welcome to my blog-style home for ideas (related to writing, rhetoric, speaking, listening, and more) that I know will piss off some people and please others to their soul. I’m starting a movement: “Not PC, GC.” That is, I want to put a dent in language-harming “political correctness” (PC),…

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