http://www.christinanewberry.com/blog/obamas-a-great-orator-but-he-still-confuses-me-myself-and-i/ Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:45:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.christinanewberry.com/blog/obamas-a-great-orator-but-he-still-confuses-me-myself-and-i/comment-page-1/#comment-5427 Christina Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:15:56 +0000 http://www.christinanewberry.com/blog/obamas-a-great-orator-but-he-still-confuses-me-myself-and-i/#comment-5427 @Jay Since I'm not writing for a newspaper, I don't avoid "is" in my headlines. "Obama a great orator" would look pretty goofy as a blog post title. "Obama's" here is the perfectly acceptable contraction of "Obama is": http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blgr_contractions.htm @Jay
Since I’m not writing for a newspaper, I don’t avoid “is” in my headlines. “Obama a great orator” would look pretty goofy as a blog post title.
“Obama’s” here is the perfectly acceptable contraction of “Obama is”: http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blgr_contractions.htm

]]> http://www.christinanewberry.com/blog/obamas-a-great-orator-but-he-still-confuses-me-myself-and-i/comment-page-1/#comment-2630 Jay Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:23:45 +0000 http://www.christinanewberry.com/blog/obamas-a-great-orator-but-he-still-confuses-me-myself-and-i/#comment-2630 Are you serious using Obama's to mean Obama is or is this to illustrate another point about poor writing? Are you serious using Obama’s to mean Obama is or is this to illustrate another point about poor writing?

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