The Struggling Blogger

No matter how hard I try, I can’t help but commit them. Even if i reviewed my post a hundred times, something always passes me. A misplaced article or a preposition - a ‘to’ where a ‘from’ should be, an ‘on’ where an ‘in’ is more fitting.

Sometimes, I go back to my previous posts and just laugh at myself. What’s a ‘d’ doing in my sentence when I was not referring to a past event… oh, bloopers, blooper, blooper… bloopers everywhere. No wonder, proofreaders are so valuable.

I am conscious of my grammar, spelling and everything. Yet, I still can’t understand why I wrote ‘live’ and I was meaning to write ‘leave’?… oops! there’s that quotation-punctuation combination again. Will I ever get them right?

Well I do hope, whatever blunder I do commit would be forgivable. I will try to review every work, perhaps go back to my posts way back when. I’m sure I still can find some in them. In the meantime, grammar blunders or not. I hope I still get my messages across.

NOPE! This is not a sequel to my July 18 Earthquake post, this is about some English words and phrases that I have encountered then and now. Somehow these words and phrases has made me think and ask. You may take this seriously, but I suggest you won’t as these are merely playing with words, from someone who is not really an English expert, but then again….

Some of these words and phrases are as follows:

Proper Authority - which makes me ask the question “is there an improper authority?” and if ever there is such a thing, would it still be considered to be an authority knowing that it is improper?
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