Grammar Challenge!

Improve this sentence: Where you’re born is more of, chance, I think, besides, turn the earth a bit and you’d still be on the same soil.    

TWP Weekly Writing Post 2014 April 6-12 Edition

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Thorns by Maggie Lillo

Here’s a shared poem!   Thorns   This is an ill-humored spring full of vicious rages, sullen gray apologies, weeks of cold silence It isn’t funny any more, patience is lagging Time to let it go, spring forward… Blow away your angry monologue, there is nothing left to say   The birds have hope Oblivious…

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Communication Pool

Improving your communication one example at a time. A few weeks ago, I posted this actual text from a company memo. I HAVE RECIEVED QUITE A FEW COMPLAINTS ABOUT CUSTOMERS BEING STALLED AT THE SPEAKER! THERE SHOULD BE NO “WAIT A MOMENT” AT THE SPEAKER, YOU HAVE A ORDER TAKER AND THAT’S IS THERE FIRST PRIORITY!…

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TWP Weekly Writing Post 2014 March 23-29 Edition

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Grammar Challenge!

This was published on a news blog: As far as I remember, we were never the sort of family that aspired to leave the country in search for a better life. Can you tell what’s wrong with it?

Communication Pool: Grammar Challenge!

This was exactly what an expert botanist said in a TV news interview: “The image on the bill looks more or less exactly like the Norwegian maple.” What is wrong with it? Can you improve the sentence?