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🗓️ 2 March 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone! |
0:06.4 | Minion has a terrible cold, so I'm Ellen Hendrickson, the host of a different Quick and Dirty Tips |
0:12.7 | podcast, The Savvy Psychologist, and I'm gonna narrate Grammar Girl for you today. |
0:18.9 | This week, because it's National Grammar Day on March 4th, we have a list of Minion's |
0:24.0 | top 10 language myths. |
0:26.3 | And then, because it's also the Chinese Year of the Dog, we have a rundown of some fun |
0:31.5 | origins of the names of dog breeds. |
0:35.0 | And at the very end, I'm gonna tell you about a National Grammar Day Limerick contest |
0:39.8 | you can enter on Twitter. |
0:44.5 | And now, on to those language myths. |
0:48.0 | March 4th is National Grammar Day, so I have a special top 10 show to celebrate the |
0:53.9 | occasion. |
0:54.9 | And before you argue with me, listen to the whole explanation about why each of these |
1:00.5 | is a myth. |
1:02.2 | So here are Grammar Girls Top 10 Language Myths. |
1:07.0 | Number 10. |
1:08.0 | A run-on sentence is a really long sentence. |
1:11.7 | Wrong, they can actually be quite short. |
1:14.9 | In a run-on sentence, independent clauses are squished together without the help of punctuation |
1:21.1 | or conjunction. |
1:22.7 | If you write, I am short, he is tall, as one sentence without a semicolon, colon, or |
1:28.9 | dash between the two independent clauses, it's a run-on sentence, even though it only has |
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