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Let’s eat Grandma! How to use, and not use the comma
‘If you could edit your past, what would you change?’ ‘I’d get rid of all the commas’ – Peter Carey A misplaced comma can provide hours of fun on the web but sabotage the meaning of a sentence.
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Word criminal? The web will sentence you (The Guardian 29/8/2014)
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Neighbour languages: linguistic coexistence
(The Economist 20-8-2014) CROSSING the Oresund bridge from Denmark to Sweden is not merely a matter of a cringe-inducing toll
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David Crystal: Why grammar lessons should be renamed ‘understanding language’
It’s an exciting time for grammar, according to the experts. But there’s a need for fresh thinking and the word itself can be misleading
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Losing your first language (BBC News)
For many of us, the thought of ever forgetting how to speak our native language would seem preposterous. But for some readers, it became a reality.
