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Mel: "me taking responsibility" and "to sort of put anything off of me"

"We're talking about me right now, and me taking responsibility for my words and actions, and I'm certainly not going to use him to sort of put anything off of me. It isn't the explanation for what happened that night. It isn't. It has nothing to do with it. That's in my own heart." - […]

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Courtney: "that girl that lives with no regrets"

"I always thought I'd be that girl that lives with no regrets. I have regrets." - Courtney Love
Courtney has used an incorrect relative pronoun. In the noun phrase "girl that lives with no regrets," the relative pronoun "that" refers to "girl." This is incorrect because "that" should be used to refer only to animals and […]

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Kirsten: "Jason’s and mine relationship"

"Even though it was hard for him to talk to her and they had an awkward relationship, I think by the end they were brother and sister and had such a love for each other. I think they became more like best friends, and that’s what Jason’s and mine relationship is." - Kirsten Dunst, comparing […]

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Good job! Dita is a singular star.

"Neither of us is ready. I don’t feel that we need to have children to validate our marriage, and I don’t need children to claim I’m a fulfilled woman." - Dita Von Teese, on procreating with husband Marilyn Manson
Dita has correctly used a singular verb with a singular indefinite pronoun. The subject of the first […]

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Orlando: "Me and my dog are in the dark ages."

An In Touch interviewer asked Orlando Bloom this question: "A lot of celebrities have pages on the web on MySpace. Do you?"
This is Orlando's response:
"No, I don't even have a computer or email yet! I'm getting one, though. Me and my dog are in the dark ages."

Orlando has used an objective pronoun as the subject […]

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