{"id":195,"date":"2008-04-15T18:34:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T23:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timcurran.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2008-08-17T20:18:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T00:18:49","slug":"link-of-the-week-grammer-not-gramma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/link-of-the-week-grammer-not-gramma\/","title":{"rendered":"Link of the Week: Grammar, not gramma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With almost every entry on this blog I toss around grammar jargon like they&#8217;re working overtime at the factory. Most of it is stuff you probably thought you were done with when you graduated middle school. But, oh no, here it is again&#8230; and related to something you <em>should <\/em>know in order to make a living in newswriting. I bet you didn&#8217;t count on <em>that <\/em>when you flushed your mental cache around the time you graduated from college.<\/p>\n<p>So for those who need a very condensed but readable guide to basic English grammar&#8211;technical terms and all&#8211;here&#8217;s what I use to double check my hazy recollections: <a title=\"UVIC Grammar Topics\" href=\"http:\/\/web2.uvcs.uvic.ca\/elc\/studyzone\/410\/grammar\/\" target=\"_self\">Grammar Topics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are a thousand similar pages on the web. I happen to like this one (from the University of Victoria, British Columbia web site) because it&#8217;s very concise, correct (as far as I can tell), and from an academic (i.e. reasonably authoritative) source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With almost every entry on this blog I toss around grammar jargon like they&#8217;re working overtime at the factory. Most of it is stuff you probably thought you were done with when you graduated middle school. But, oh no, here it is again&#8230; and related to something you should know in order to make a living in newswriting. I bet you didn&#8217;t count on that when you flushed your mental cache around the time you graduated from college. So for those who need a very condensed but readable guide to basic English grammar&#8211;technical terms and all&#8211;here&#8217;s what I use to double check my hazy recollections: Grammar Topics. There are a thousand similar pages on the web. I happen to like this one (from the University of Victoria, British Columbia web site) because it&#8217;s very concise, correct (as far as I can tell), and from an academic (i.e. reasonably authoritative) source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,20,11],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-links","category-newswriting","tag-grammar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tim Curran","author_link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/author\/timcurran-admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"With almost every entry on this blog I toss around grammar jargon like they&#8217;re working overtime at the factory. 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