Common Errors in English Usage


	Common Errors in English Usage

davboz

8-25-2007 2:16 AM

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8-26-2007 11:07 PM

Dumb_allen

Good read

Loved it, Though I have been using a couple of websites for checking out synonyms for effective communication and language usage.

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<A href="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html"><IMG src="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/teacher.jpeg" /></A>
</P><P> <IMG src="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/rule.gif" /> <A href="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html"><H2 align="center">Go to list of errors.</H2></A></P><P> <IMG src="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/rule.gif" /></P><P>
</P><P> <I>What is an error in English?</I><BR /> The concept of language errors is a
fuzzy one. I’ll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we’re
concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by
sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate
executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low
grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at
the way you write or speak.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/">But isn’t one person’s mistake another’s standard usage?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/"> <A title="Linkification: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/" href="http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/" class="linkification-ext">www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/</A>.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html" href="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wsu.edu:8080</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html"><A href="#a">A</A> | <A href="#b">B</A> | <A href="#c">C</A> | <A href="#d">D</A> | <A href="#e">E</A> | <A href="#f">F</A> | <A href="#g">G</A> | <A href="#h">H</A> | <A href="#i">I</A> | <A href="#j">J</A> | <A href="#k">K</A> | <A href="#l">L</A> | <A href="#m">M</A> | <A href="#n">N</A> | <A href="#o">O</A> | <A href="#p">P</A> | <A href="#q">Q</A> | <A href="#r">R</A> | <A href="#s">S</A> | <A href="#t">T</A> | <A href="#u">U</A> | <A href="#v">V</A> | <A href="#w">W</A> | <A href="#x">X</A> | <A href="#y">Y</A> | <A href="#z">Z</A></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/22880C0E-FCEF-485B-9C7D-FEAB27003866/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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