Jim Baumann
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Grammar Moses: Why you can't swap 'until' for unlessNov 14, 2015 11:00 am - A staff member asked me whether “most” and “almost” are interchangeable. In some cases, yes. In some cases, no. And there is a variety of opinion on why. Here is my tak...
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Grammar Moses: If you're inflammable, should you be afraid of that match?Nov 08, 2015 12:00 am - Reader Dave Fellman clipped a story from our Business section that read: "But President Dennis Williams said Monday he'll pick between Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chry...
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How can you use $100 to make someone else's life better? Tell us.Oct 31, 2015 11:00 pm - Believe Project: Sign up for chance at $100 to make another life better
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Grammar Moses: If past history is any indication, I'm being redundantOct 31, 2015 12:00 am - You might think repetition and redundancy are one and the same. You would be wrong. If you are flying a rocket to the moon, redundancy is valuable. You want the backup d...
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Grammar Moses: What's more important — where you came from or where you're going?Oct 24, 2015 10:30 am - It's clear Ron French of Naperville is unhappy about more than inflation when he writes: “I am forever annoyed by the selection of: ‘The price went up to $2 from $1.' Su...
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Grammar Moses: Yes, kids care about grammar and punctuationOct 18, 2015 7:00 am - I recently was invited to participate in a Google Hangout with one of John Blomquist's eighth-grade language arts classes at Dundee Middle School in West Dundee. If you ...
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Grammar Moses: Can you have a handful of elephants?Oct 11, 2015 7:40 am - You can have a handful of potato chips and a handful of ball bearings, but can you really have a handful of elephants? Unless you're Lemuel Gulliver (see "Gulliver's Tra...
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Grammar Moses: Is it for us to say whether CEOs 'earn' $10M?Oct 04, 2015 7:15 am - Do you remember the Smith Barney TV ad from 1979 in which a very proper John Houseman says, "Good investments don't walk up, bite you on the bottom and say, 'We're here....
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Readers help Daily Herald when staff needs supportOct 04, 2015 6:00 am - We've spent a lot of time in this section talking about how the Daily Herald relishes connecting people in need with people who want to help, whether that be financial o...
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Grammar Moses: 'Penultimate' isn't all it's cracked up to beSep 27, 2015 7:30 am - Margaret McDonald of Arlington Heights is the type of parent I would have aspired to be, had I been a parent. “I'm the mother who used to pay her kids a nickel a day if ...