Eliot Kleinberg

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From the Grammar Police

Cattle and dairy cows can be grass-fed. Beef and milk aren’t fed. How about “We believe happy grassfed cows make the best milk.”

This horrible, and common, misuse of comma-separated phrases will be the subject of a future segment. It needs to be, “One ton of paper consumes 17 trees and three cubic yards of landfill space and pollutes 7,000 gallons of water.”

Cliché alert!

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Readers: "Something Went Horribly Wrong," features samples of bad writing we see nearly every day. You can participate! Be our duly deputized “grammar police:” Your motto: “To protect and correct.” Send in your photos of store signs, street signs, newspaper headlines, tweets, and so on. It doesn’t have to be a grammatical error. It can be just what we call “cowardly writing.” Include your name and home town so we properly can credit you. You're free to add a comment, although we reserve the right to edit or omit. Now get out there! Send to Eliot@eliotkleinberg.com