Sunday, August 16, 2015

Just 'Between You & Me,' Here Are Some Handy Grammar Tips

Here are some great tips:
In radio, we don't punctuate — at least, not on the air. Nevertheless, we're honored to meet a woman who is at the pinnacle of punctuation. Mary Norris is a copy editor at The New Yorker, a magazine justly famous for the care it takes with words. The work of very well-known authors has felt the authoritative pressure of her pencil since 1978 — and after a lifetime of improving the words of others, she has written her own book, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. She tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer that the title comments on a common mistake, "using 'I' instead of 'me' in phrases such as 'between you and me,' after any preposition or as the object of a verb." How can you tell when you're messing it up? Put the "I" first. "You might make a mistake — I hope not — and say 'between you and I,'" Norris says, "but you would never make the mistake of saying 'between I and you.'"
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2015/04/04/397094248/just-between-you-me-here-are-some-handy-grammar-tips
I also came across with this article: http://jadevarden.blogspot.com/2012/09/writing-101-is-gotten-good-grammar.html

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