Booher's Rules of Business Grammar - Dianna Booher 2009
Verbosity about verbs: The big blunders
Let’s dialogue about verbing words
“They had went to my office earlier in the day”
“He come back from overseas early”
Lie or lay before i knock you off your feet
Pushy people demanding their way
“I wish i may, i wish i might … could you tell me which verb to use tonight?”
Acting alone or with accomplices?
Pesky pronouns: The understudies
“You know what they always say about that”
Modifier mishaps
Misplaced modifiers that mystify
“… Which is what i always say …”
Learn this backwards and forwards
A honor or an honor to be here?
Adjective and adverb attitudes
“This job is more simpler than what i had before”
“It’s the most unique gift i’ve ever received!”
“This checkout—20 items or less”
“He has over a million miles on that airline”
Parallel bars and balance beams
To balance or not to balance—that is the question
“I worked, waited, and was rewarded”
Time marches on—but at the same pace
Punctuation problems
“Hi hank, what do yyou think frank?”
One car, two cars, three cars, four
Would you send me your address please
Perplexing possessives
Do you love me—or what i can do for you?
Reminders about redundancies
Past experience—is there any other kind?
A subject matter worth discussing
I get your point—but do you get mine?
Miscellaneous matters
Dash away, dash away, dash away all
Undercapitalized with no regrets
Misspelled and misused words
May i see your references, please?
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