Grammatical Over-Correction #3: Commas

This is my third post tonight. I’m going to stop after this and do something else like yoga or sleep. I have a problem. I have chronic comma over-use syndrome. I need all of my fellow grammar Nazis to point out all of my over-use errors. I get sick of editing my posts and removing [...]

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Grammatical Over-Correction #2

This one is not so much an over-correction as it is grammar meets political correctness. Hear ye, hear ye, one and all!  The English language does not have a gender neutral singular personal pronoun that is used for human beings.  That, unfortunately (I guess?), means that you have to PICK a gender and not assign [...]

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Grammatical Over-Correction #1

 Today I am annoyed by grammatical over-corrections. Particularly by people who, in an effort to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition, completely eliminate the preposition. Here’s the latest example but there are far more egregious ones. He has to choose the path he wants to go. You don’t GO a path. You go DOWN [...]

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