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A man of many words and many wives
by christina in October 18th, 2008
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. [...]
Reality check
by christina in October 17th, 2008
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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