1. farm raised aardvarks
2. derogatory alternative to typical "retard", can be used in the same circumstances.
-related to: morongoose, quailtard
> Stop licking the pavement, you retaardvark

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is bring versus take. Many listeners have asked me to talk about today's topic. Here's a caller: Hi Grammar Girl. It's Clint in Chester, VA. I have two children reaching high school age and they still don't know the d

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(29) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

By Mignon Fogarty I decided to write about comma splices because my friend Scott Sigler has a book coming out this week, Ancestor, published by Crown. Over three years ago, when he was publishing an earlier version of the book with a smaller publishe

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is dashes. Last week when I was speaking at the Field's End Writers Conference on Bainbridge Island, someone in the audience asked about dashes. When should she use a dash and how is it different from a colon? Dashes

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to use the word myself. Misusing myself is definitely one of the top things people complain to me about. Here's an example: caller comment The caller is right; people seem to be so afraid to use the words me an

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is whether--not rain or sunshine, but whether w-h-e-t-h-e-r, as in whether you like it or not, it's the topic. [Listener question about if versus whether and whether you need an or not after whether] Well, it's been a

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is misplaced modifiers. Of all the writing errors you can make, misplaced modifiers are among the most likely to confuse your readers, but they're also kind of fun because misplaced modifiers can give your sentences s

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