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Friday Follies #128 – Making Grammar Great Again, One Hyphen at a Time

March 23, 2018 ~ Ellie ~ 14 Comments

Grammar glitches got you down? Stymied by spelling? The Grammar Cop is here to enlighten and – just maybe – entertain!

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Friday Follies #122 – Making Grammar Great Again, One Hyphen at a Time

February 9, 2018 ~ Ellie ~ 9 Comments

Happy Friday, fellow grammophiles! This week the Grammar Cop has rescued some abused verbs for you. Rest assured that the wayward writers will pay for their crimes! (How? I’m workin’ on it! πŸ˜€ )

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Friday Follies #118 – Making Grammar Great Again, One Hyphen at a Time

January 12, 2018 ~ Ellie ~ 14 Comments

Hi, FFers! Good to ‘see’ you, and welcome to yet another edition of grubby gaffes. No rest for the Grammar Cop! Today’s batch o’ crimes features the wicked wandering apostrophe!

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Friday Follies #116 – Making Grammar Great Again, One Hyphen at a Time

December 15, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 9 Comments

Greetings, Friday Follies Fanciers! The Grammar Cop brings you her last set of three ugly infractions before her holiday break.

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Friday Follies #114 – Making Grammar Great Again, One Hyphen at a Time

December 1, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 13 Comments

Welcome back, Friday Follies fanatics! Here is yet another bunch o’ boo-boos caught by the ever-vigilant Grammar Cop over the past week.

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Friday Follies #78: 2 mistakes that make me go β€œArghhh” – and 2 bits of perfection!

March 3, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 1 Comment

Hi again, Friday Follie-ites. Today marks a first for the Grammar Cop. Besides presenting the usual besmirched boo-boos of the week, she is actually going to laud a couple of examples of correct grammar… a rarity!

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Friday Follies #77 – 3 mistakes that make me go β€œArghhh”

February 24, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 8 Comments

It’s good to be back! The Grammar Cop missed you. But did you miss the Grammar Cop? That is the question. In any case, here are this week’s nauseating nuggets.

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Friday Follies #74 – 5 mistakes that make me go β€œArghhh”

February 3, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 12 Comments

Hi, Friday Folliers! Today the Grammar Cop treats you to no less than five boo-boos, all gleaned from the Opinion (letters) page of our popular weekly, The Suburban. Without further ado:

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Friday Follies #65 – 3 mistakes that make me go β€œArghhh”

November 18, 2016November 18, 2016 ~ Ellie ~ 7 Comments

Welcome back, fellow grammarphiles – and grammarphobes! Today the Grammar Cop will focus her razor-sharp-but-jaundiced eye on severalΒ relatedΒ misdemeanours.

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Friday Follies #8 – Three mistakes that make me go β€œArghhh”!

September 25, 2015February 13, 2016 ~ Ellie ~ 2 Comments

The Grammar Cop sometimes gets weary. She sees the same errors over and over again. But then she has to remember: for her – okay, for me – these well-worn gaffes are oldies, but for many people they’re apparently something new. So with some newly acquired compassion, I will now take gentle aim at this week’s lot.

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