Grammar Gone Bad
We’ve mentioned some of the reasons we think that good grammar is important. Here are some common grammatical mistakes to look out for.
Proper grammatical use of You and Me and I
The word “I” is used when the You in questions is the subject of a sentence. “I” does things. “I like that,” you say. You don’t say, “Me like that,” unless you are Tarzan. “Me” makes his appearance when things are done to You. “He really screwed me on that deal,” is both a common occurrence and correct usage.
Stanley Bing, Fortune Magazine: When smart people use bad grammar
Correct Adverbs positioning
Adverbs not: adjectives easily confused for adverbs
Adjectives can be used predicatively after many verbs, not just after the verb to be. You can say, “He became intolerable”, just as you can say, “He was intolerable.” Fire can burn bright, low, blue, red; it can grow hot or leap high. It can look cheerful, but it can also crackle cheerfully.
Christopher Howse, The Telegraph: Does a tyger burn brightly?
The Double Superlative
There’s no doubt this must be one of the most nastiest divorces…
Sentence Parts: Charlie Sheen & Denise Richards…”The most nastiest couple”?
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Mission accomplished: the first-ever and only American iPhone 4 has been unlocked from its carrier which would be AT&T. A wily Canadian got his hands on the mobile device and after a long night of work shows off his functioning iPhone 4 in the video above.
Consumer Reports says it is unable to recommend the iPhone 4 until Apple fixes antenna problems. Although Consumer Reports isn’t making a specific recommendation, say Paul Reynolds, you can try using duct tape to cover the lower left hand side of the iPhone 4 to avoid the “death grip” and lose signal strength.
CNNMoney’s David Goldman discusses Consumer Reports magazine’s decision not to recommend the iPhone 4. Perhaps some duct tape might do the trick…
Having reception trouble with the iPhone 4? Consumer Reports says the easiest fix for the death grip antenna glitch may be a sliver of duct tape. CNN.com’s tech reporter John Sutter also says you can get yourself an iPhone bumper that goes around the outside edge of the device. Perhaps instead of the silver duct tape, some black gaffer’s tape might prove to be a more elegant option?
First there was the 1-minute wordless Apple FaceTime spot set to Louis Armstrong music featuring the intimate moments in family life which can now be shared over distances thanks to this new iOS4 technology. Fortune online is calling Apple’s new commercials for FaceTime “heartbreaking.” Spolier warning: nobody gets any bad news. As a matter of fact, in two out of the four spots, the characters in fact receive good news. In the other two, things are bittersweet at worst and basically all the ads have happy endings. We think the emotional term the business-minded folks over at fortune were looking for was “heart-warming.” Hey, it’s July — it must have been the heat (wave) going to their heads. Perhaps, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, no matter how good is his depth of knowledge of Apple, is thinking of this heartbreaking iPhone 4 FaceTime ad.
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