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Necropolis Awaits……

April 18, 2017April 18, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 9 Comments

Okay, my brilliant son-in-law’s blockbuster novel is out!

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Friday Follies #84 – Making Grammar Great Again, One Hyphen at a Time

April 14, 2017April 14, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 5 Comments

For a change of pace today, the Grammar Cop would like to talk about some unusual plural and singular forms with which some FF fans might not be familiar. But first…

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Friday Follies #83 – Making Grammar Great Again, One Hyphen at a Time

April 7, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 8 Comments

Welcome back, FF followers! This week the Grammar Cop, shaking her head in near-despair, shares a variety of gloomy gaffes with you. At least one of these perpetrators should definitely know better.

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Friday Follies #82 – Making Grammar Great Again, One Hyphen at a Time

March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 14 Comments

Hi, Friday Folliettes! It’s been a fruitful week for the Grammar Cop; her cup runneth over. (See what I did there? The semi-colon! Sigh… It is so under-appreciated!)

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Friday Follies #81 – Making Grammar Great Again, One Hyphen at a Time

March 24, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 6 Comments

We’re baaaaaack! And today the Grammar Cop is doing her duty despite being in pain.* (*Please see next post, which I’ll tackle after this one. 🙂 ) Here are some quick ‘n’ dirty gaffes for you today. Well, quick, anyway!

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Friday Follies #80 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”

March 17, 2017March 17, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 13 Comments

Welcome back, FF fans! Well, it seems that whenever the Grammar Cop gets low on material, she can always count on our weekly local rag newspaper, say it with me now: The Suburban. So without further ado, here are this week’s awful aberrations found therein.

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Friday Follies #79 – 3 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh”

March 10, 2017March 10, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 14 Comments

Hello, FF devotees! This week the Grammar Cop once again brings you three awful gaffes, along with their corrections. Because, hey, somebody has to do it.

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Friday Follies #78: 2 mistakes that make me go “Arghhh” – 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 “Arghhh”

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 #76 – Guest Post

February 17, 2017 ~ Ellie ~ 8 Comments

Hi all! The Grammar Cop is taking a little February breather today. So here’s a guest post by a fellow WordPress blogger, Cecilia Lewis of Lewis Editorial, who so kindly agreed to share her piece on commonly misused words with you lovely Friday Follies fans.

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