Wearing sequined ball gowns may be second nature, but onjugating verbs doesn’t come easily to Carrie Ann Inaba, a judge on Dancing with the Stars.
Last week she couldn’t come up with the past tense of the verb shine.
“For some reason,” Inaba told Lance Bass, “you haven’t really shone…shone-”
“Shined,” offered up Lacey Schwimmer, Bass’ professional partner.
“Shineded?” [...]

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Perhaps Joe Biden should lay off the memos for a while. His last one didn’t go so well.
Today’s memo begins with a cheap shot at brownie points: praise for his wife. “My wife Jill is an extraordinary woman.”
Nonessential elements can be removed from a sentence without changing the meaning; they are set off with commas. [...]

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Nelly Furtado confirmed that she married sound engineer Demacio “Demo” Castellon July 19. Of marriage, she said, “It’s a nice phase of my life.”
Eek! This doesn’t sound like a convincing demonstration of love for Demo. We’re afraid he just got demoted.
The adjective nice doesn’t exactly ooze enthusiasm. But even more worrisome is the noun Nelly [...]

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Joe Biden emailed a memo with the subject line “Reality check” to supporters last night. We’re afraid it needs a grammatical check.
“We’ve planned the biggest get out the vote operation in history, and we need to make sure that every voter has their voice heard,” Biden wrote.

This statement contains three errors.
First, Biden flips from [...]

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John McCain elicited some hearty laughter at last night’s NYC gala in honor of the late Gov. Al Smith. In introducing Barack Obama, McCain mocked the hype about his opponent.
“Prepare yourself for non-stop hilarity,” McCain said. “The funniest 15 minutes of your life — or any other. I think he knows that anything short of [...]

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