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Stop. Grammar Time. and Write Right enrolments open for March, April and May – online and in real life 🤓

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@bathorykitsz @GrammarTable @WillFuqua @StanCarey Aye, Sentence First be’s a great blog.

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@bathorykitsz @GrammarTable @WillFuqua Does this happen in the ‘consuetudinal tense’ that @StanCarey writes about here? https://t.co/Fthok4qDXk (‘Spring be’s a long way off.’)

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@EricaFrances4 @RMIT_PWE Outstanding! And lovely hats. Well done to all 🤓

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@Valentine702 @abcsydney Yes! What follows is the excellent plural ‘Weets Bick’.

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@racheljoy It’s hard to think of a better, nerdier way to spend a day! Thanks for having us, @racheljoy ✏️🤓

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@chorkpopp Beam me up, Johnny!

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@robheych @BCDreyer @mikepope @GrammarTable @MaryNorrisTNY It’s like the funeral team long ago established this ‘funerals are like mattresses’ thing, which they talk about in meetings and all totally get. And then the reader walks in and they’re like, ‘Anyway so as we know, funerals are like mattresses, which is … hey why are you lea—?’

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Fellow nerds. A real thinker of a dangler for your weekend. Does it dangle? No. But also … does it? Yes. @BCDreyer @mikepope @GrammarTable @MaryNorrisTNY, is this a perfect simile–modifier storm? 🙉

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@mikepope @GrammarTable @BCDreyer @MaryNorrisTNY mic-drop 🎤 [also: mike-drop]

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@GrammarTable @BCDreyer @mikepope @MaryNorrisTNY It’s just … when the subject hits, the modifier is cast in a shocking new light

[Vikki Ross @VikkiRossWrites]

Anyone: You can’t start a sentence with And

Copywriters:

[Rachel Fudge @RachelFudge]

Watching editor Twitter react to That Author's commentary on the singular "they" is life affirming. Keep at it, friends!

#AmEditing

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@SarahStivens AND an ambiguous pronoun! It’s The Sign That Keeps On Giving

[Michael Lucy @MmichaelLlucy]

happy RUOK day to all who celebrate

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@quantumtalk Truly the horror of the contingent 😳

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All of my five hearts. This worm.

[Jacqueline Shirtliff @Jacqsalpoet]

Writing poems in Year 4 today. So impressed with the writing. Some are just natural poets!

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@Tim_Coronel

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@Tim_Coronel Dashes, though. How good are they? Poe is a good source on this