Businesses that don't bother checking their websites, journalists who write gibberish and balderdash, professionals who can't take the extra time and effort to spell-check and proofread, newspapers that turn tragedy into farce through solecisms, plus the odd guide to solving common grammatical difficulties…
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Tuesday 10 May 2016
You Cannot Be Serious, # 68
It was going so well, but then the writer chose an adjectival construction instead of negating the verb, and it all went horribly wrong…
Source: Times Higher Education, 2253 (5—11May, 2016), p. 4
drones can carry only a small payload, let alone […]
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