Sports edition…

Do you plan to make a playoff berth, or give birth?

Marlins? We wish.

Someone is not having a dominating grammar outing! (P.S.: Guardians’ needs an apostrophe.)

Nope. The past tense of lead is led.

And we go to the video archives for Segment 43: Lazy! https://youtu.be/3y6r-xFW9Ig

Readers: In a commercial for a medical supplement, a woman says, “before I took (product), I couldn’t do the things I wanted to do.” We could argue, does that mean she could do the things she didn’t want to do? Or are we nitpicking? Readers: Weigh in!

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, menus, TV news graphics, 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

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