Saturday, May 5, 2012

GOOD WRITING & SPEAKING ARE NOT THIS DIFFICULT!

A GREAT COLLECTION OF ERRORS TODAY!

Identify and correct all the errors in the following examples. Good luck.

? ?For the amount of vehicles we have out there on the road, for the amount of hours we are out there on the road and the amount of mileage we?re putting on these vehicles, it?s inevitable there are going to be collisions,? said Corey.?
Sgt Brett Corey, Windsor Police spokesman, ??Police cars crash, again?, The Windsor Star, Friday, May 4, 2012.?

?No need for due process. No matter even that Abouhassen looks nothing like the description Van Buskirk was given, that he?d never been at the tennis club or that the man, while acting suspiciously, had done nothing wrong. Seconds later, bam! Van Buskirk grabs Abouhassen by the neck and starts swinging.?
Anne Jarvis, ?Do the crime, do the time?, The Windsor Star, Friday, May 4, 2012.

?No criminal here serves their entire sentence; everyone gets out early.?
Anne Jarvis, ?Do the crime, do the time?, The Windsor Star, Friday, May 4, 2012.

?And if an organization has a pool of young workers to drawn upon when there are vacancies there?s no need to worry about departures he said.?
Alfie Morgan, quoted in a story by Monica Wolfson, ?CITY, COUNTY EXECS GET HEFTY PAY HIKES?, The Windsor Star, Friday, May 4, 2012.

TODAY?S WORD

The word for today is ?fervour?.
What part of speech is ?fervour??
Define ?fervour? and use it in a sentence that shows its meaning.

CORRECTIONS & EXPLANATIONS

Corrections and explanations for this week?s entries will be posted Sunday.

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