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🗓️ 2 March 2012
⏱️ 5 minutes
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0:00.0 | Grammar girl here, today I have a quick tip for you about the words all right and then |
0:05.4 | I have a special National Grammar Day short story that plays on the two possible spellings |
0:09.6 | of all right. |
0:11.2 | Our story is by Rich Russell and is titled when Mr. Brown met Ms. Fox, a love story, and |
0:17.2 | for you to get the joke, you need to know that many people get confused about how to spell |
0:21.4 | all right. |
0:23.0 | In standard English, all right is written as two words, all right. |
0:28.4 | Even though it's two words though, dictionaries classify the two words together as one adjective |
0:33.3 | or one adverb. |
0:35.4 | It's two words in all of these sentences I'll read to you. |
0:38.5 | The kids are all right. |
0:40.0 | All right, let's go to the circus. |
0:42.5 | I like squiggly, he's all right. |
0:46.1 | Many people mistakenly spell it as one word, A-L-R-I-G-H-T, and sometimes people even spell |
0:52.4 | it that way on purpose to save space. |
0:55.4 | But in proper English, it's always two words. |
0:59.7 | So here's our National Grammar Day's story. |
1:02.3 | National Grammar Day is March 4th, Sunday this year, and you can visit nationalgrammarday.com |
1:07.4 | to get all kinds of great freebies and ideas to help you celebrate. |
1:12.0 | When Mr. Brown met Ms. Fox, a love story by Rich Russell. |
1:16.9 | Quickly Mr. Brown jumped ahead of Ms. Fox in the queue. |
1:20.3 | Excuse you, she huffed. |
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