All the talk of hope in this morning’s interview with pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen appears to have flustered Robin Roberts.
“We just try to help people stay encouraged, not to get bitter, not to just resent things, but really stay hopeful,” Victoria told her.
“I like to tell people to get their hopes up,” Joel added.

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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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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.
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when to use commas before the conjunction ‘and’
Reading the transcript of President Bush’s national address on the economy, which is posted as a news release on the official White House website, it becomes painfully clear that the presidents’ editors and aides have no clue how to use commas.
Consider the commas in these statements.

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