Michael's English Usage

Grammar Lessons from a Grumpy Old English Teacher

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Thursday, October 25, 2012 By Michael Lyons Leave a Comment

INCREDIBLE!

Read the entire entry below and find the two mistakes in it. Explain the errors and correct them.

“ ‘Him and I did not see eye to eye a lot of times on a lot of issues,’ said Musyj.”
David Musyj, in a story by Doug Schmidt, “Finance minister ‘delivered big-time’ ”, The Windsor Star, Thursday, October 25, 2012.

TODAY’S WORD

The word for today is “trammel”.
What parts of speech can “trammel” be?
Define “trammel” and use it in a sentence that demonstrates its meaning.

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