Tuesday, March 2, 2010

WRITING 01

NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY
March 4, 2010


SOME BASICS

Identify and correct the errors in the following pieces: there are two; some might argue there are three.

"Which is why, 10 minutes into the Canada-U.S. hockey game on Sunday, my wife - a hockey fan of the rabid French-Canadian variety - and I decided we had to watch the rest of the game in public somewhere."
Chris Vander Doelen, "What a game changer", The Windsor Star, Tuesday, March 2, 2010.

"And we sung the whole thing, no petering out in embarrassed silence halfway through like the old days."
Chris Vander Doelen, "What a game changer", The Windsor Star, Tuesday, March 2, 2010.

TODAY'S WORD

The word for today is "winsome".
What part of speech is "winsome"?
Define "winsome" and use it in a sentence.

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