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Monthly Archives: August 2006

Kristen: "Americans are used to following the story of one person a little easier"

“I didn’t see Kairo until I had already booked Pulse, but when I saw it, I loved it. I thought it was really smart and really eerie. I think in Americanizing it they chose to condense a lot of the characters. Americans look at that kind of film and they look at it as more […]

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Good job! If only everyone were like Jessica…

"You already can't bring your tweezers, and now you can't walk on with a bottle of water. That's a problem for me. If I were traveling with a carry-on only, I would be totally screwed." - Jessica Biel, in People, about the new restrictions for commercial airline travel
Jessica has avoided two common errors, both of […]

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Owen: "As a kid, my parents were pretty strict about manners"

"As a kid, my parents were pretty strict about manners, so I had the way I was with my friends and then my personality with adults, and that's continued a little bit." - Owen Wilson
Owen has misplaced a modifier. The introductory prepositional phrase "as a kid" is followed by a clause in which "my parents" […]

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Leah: "It's a normal baby; it's a beautiful baby."

"It's a normal baby; it's a beautiful baby. She's a very well-loved and protected baby. She's with normal people. That's why I don't understand the craziness." - Leah Remini, about Suri Cruise
Leah has made a pronoun error. She has used the third person pronoun "it" to refer to a person whose sex is not unknown.
The […]

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Mark: "to have the proper equipment and finding a place to practice"

"Football is like hockey in that it’s an expensive sport to play. You have to have the proper equipment and finding a place to practice and have games." - Mark Wahlberg, who stars as football player Vince Papale in Invincible, on the challenges of playing the sport in his youth
Mark has made an error in […]

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