Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Grammar / Media / News
The Tribune hasn't cleaned up its grammatical act yet
Posted
By Michael Miner
on 07.30.13 at 04:54 PM
A couple of weeks ago
I examined a tricky point of grammar that journalists frequently—and the
Tribune almost invariably—get wrong. It's
one of those who (or
that) followed by a singular, instead of a plural, verb. I contacted Valentina Djeljosevic, the
Trib's grammar maven, and sent her a learned analysis of the grammatical problem. She said her paper's writers and editors apparently shared a common "blind spot" and she'd share the analysis with her staff.
Change is slow in coming. A couple of new violations jumped out at me from Tuesday's Arts + Entertainment section.
Three more that I cherish: "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), one of the rare socially conscious child-centric films that earns its uplift; Carol Reed's "Oliver" (1968), the best of all Dickens adaptations (excepting David Lean's "Great Expectations"); and Alfonso Cuaron's "A Little Princess" (1994) . . .
and
Plaza is one of the few comic actresses building a career in film and TV who doesn't come from a standup background.
This'll take time.
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