Clipmarks - Aribeth's english

by dakotayii 4-14-2008

A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so .... Time to shut UP! Oh ...one more thing:! What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night? U P!

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POPS nine most terrifying words in the English language

by swampfoxz 4-12-2008

Greener grass.....

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POPS Professor Paul Brians: Study Guides to Various Works

by Johanna_G 4-5-2008

Very illuminative, engrossing, helpful, thought-provoking.

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POPS Words about Words

by Aribeth 4-2-2008

To communicate about their work, copy editors use a number of terms that most people forgot after their last course in English composition (or maybe never knew at all). In addition to knowing how to make a poor sentence better, a copy editor has to be able to defend his or her decisions to writers, editors, and fellow copy editors. That means being able to talk the talk. This list also provides a good indication of the errors that copy editors commonly catch and correct.<< More at the source.

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POPS Beware of Buffalo buffalo, buffalo, for they may buffalo you