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Gettable Grammar: Learning to Like “Like”

April 9, 2013 by Karen Virag | 2 Comments on Gettable Grammar: Learning to Like “Like”

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. One often hears complaints about how some people litter their sentences with the word like — not as a noun, verb, preposition or conjunction, but as, like, an interjection. Like that. Now I know that Canadians like to blame Americans for […]

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Gettable Grammar: Things That Dangle

March 12, 2013 by Karen Virag | 1 Comment on Gettable Grammar: Things That Dangle

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. Things that dangle in the night. And in the day. Hours before giving birth, a woman’s boyfriend leaves her for her best friend and quits the talent agency they run together to start his own competing business. Now that is one […]

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Gettable Grammar: I Are Confused

February 12, 2013 by Karen Virag | 1 Comment on Gettable Grammar: I Are Confused

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. I are confused, aren’t I? Have you ever wondered why we say, “He is, isn’t he?” and “She is, isn’t she?” but we don’t say “I am, amn’t I?” (though you might say this if you lived in certain parts of […]

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Gettable Grammar: Less is More

January 15, 2013 by Karen Virag | Leave a Comment

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. Less is more, not fewer. Except sometimes. The question of when to use fewer and when to use less perplexes many people. Generally speaking, you should use fewer to refer to a smaller number and less to refer to a smaller […]

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Gettable Grammar: Grammar Class Wars

December 18, 2012 by Karen Virag | 2 Comments on Gettable Grammar: Grammar Class Wars

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. Grammar class wars Grammar. If it’s not your gramper’s wife, what the heck is it? Well, grammar is the field of linguistics that covers the conventions of a language; it involves morphology and syntax, phonetics, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. Still scratching […]

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