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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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Christina: "who I will never work with again"

"At my wedding, I said, 'Let's put the veil on,' and it wasn't there. It was an oversight of my stylist, who I will never work with again." - Christina Aguilera, who immediately fired her employee upon discovering her veil had not been brought to her wedding
Christina has made the common error of using the […]

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Colin: "I kind of avoided changing me" and "who I'm in love with"

"Fatherhood only changes you if you allow it to change you. I kind of avoided changing me for a while. I just know that I have somebody who, for the first time in my life, I'm in love with, and it's going to last." - Colin Farrell, in OK Magazine
Colin has made two pronoun errors. […]

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Good job! Sheryl knows her "whom" from her "who."

"I went for my annual mammogram - I've been getting them yearly since I was 35 - and [the doctor] saw new calcifications. I wasn't nervous about it, so when they told me to come back in six months, I left the clinic. Three hours later, my ob-gyn, whom I've been seeing for years, called […]

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Christina: "so in love, so happy or felt so alive" and "person who I completely love and adore"

"I've never been so in love, so happy or felt so alive. I start to cry when I think of everything he has brought into my life. It still feels overwhelming to have married that one person who I completely love and adore." - Christina Aguilera, on her husband Jordan Bratman
Christina has made an error […]

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