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Grammatical Correction · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question in for our American mamas.
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  Speaker 2: Dear mamas, do you mind being corrected on your grammar?
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's ask our American mamas. Mama, mama, mama.
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  Speaker 2: Mama told me not to come.
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  Speaker 1: She said that ain't the way to happen, no.
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  Speaker 2: And joining us now are American mamas Tara Netterville and
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  Speaker 2: Kimberly Burleson.
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  Speaker 1: No, you guys?
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  Speaker 4: Well, apparently, according to Terry the other day, frequently on
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  Speaker 4: the radio, I have been using the word she the
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  Speaker 4: wrong way. She and her. She said, you've been using it.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, what?
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't believe it because I feel like I'm aware.
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  Speaker 3: She's like, oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I said, why didn't you tell me that?
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  Speaker 3: She said, because I thought it was cute.
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  Speaker 4: I said, that is not cute. That is not cute
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  Speaker 4: to be on the radio saying, And not use correct grammar.
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  Speaker 1: As opposed to me and I, she and her.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. It's the most common grammatical mistake. Right. I
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  Speaker 3: don't really think anything of it. We were at the
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  Speaker 3: beach with our cousins and sister, and I don't remember
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  Speaker 3: what came up, but she said something about somebody else
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  Speaker 3: not using, like, oh, she misused her proper grammar. And
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  Speaker 3: I said, well, you do that. You do that all
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  Speaker 3: the time. And she's like, wham. Like, what? And I said,
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  Speaker 3: but it's like the one that, That everybody, like instead
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  Speaker 3: of saying between you and me, they'll say between you
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  Speaker 3: and I.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Or she uses like she and her, you know, if
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  Speaker 3: you swap them out.
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  Speaker 1: She and me went to the store.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I said, but it's not
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  Speaker 3: a big deal. Everybody messes up. She goes, I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to mess that up. I thought I was being proper.
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  Speaker 3: So she Googles it to see if I'm right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 3: And it came back and said, this is the most.
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  Speaker 3: This is the most Used. Yeah, most common grammatical error
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  Speaker 3: that people make because they think they're making the correct,
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  Speaker 3: because it sounds like, oh, this is the right way.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, I just, you know, I've noticed it, but
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  Speaker 3: I would never correct her on, would you ever correct
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  Speaker 3: someone on air?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, I wasn't expecting you to correct me on air,
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  Speaker 4: but at least when we're off air, you would tell me,
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  Speaker 4: so I didn't make it over and over and over.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't think people even notice. I bet Joni did.
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  Speaker 4: I bet your mom knew.
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  Speaker 3: I bet she did.
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  Speaker 2: My father is more the grammatical expert. He actually was
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  Speaker 2: asked to be an English professor. He was offered that
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  Speaker 2: at West Point at one point and decided to go
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  Speaker 2: to medical school instead. But he is a big-time.
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  Speaker 1: Expert in grammar.
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  Speaker 4: I would not surprise.
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  Speaker 3: Your dad is like the everything. He's Mr. Everything.
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  Speaker 1: Growing up, if I did... He and me went to
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  Speaker 1: the store. He was like, who?
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  Speaker 3: He and me.
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  Speaker 1: Sam and me.
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  Speaker 3: No. I had a former pastor that would say that
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  Speaker 3: all the time. He made the same, but I don't
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  Speaker 3: think anybody else did, but it was like her and
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  Speaker 3: I went to the concert and in my head I'm thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 3: there's some English teachers in here that are like, no!
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  Speaker 3: She and I went.
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  Speaker 4: But Our grandmother, she was the grammar police.
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  Speaker 3: She was the chief of that.
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  Speaker 4: But we would write her letters, and then she would
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  Speaker 4: correct our letters and send it back. And we were
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  Speaker 4: so annoyed by it. But then when I got older,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, well, I did learn a lot from her.
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  Speaker 3: And I stopped writing her. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I told her. I can absolutely see that. Well, look,
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  Speaker 1: so the play I wrote, Dueling Georges, I wrote the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing and I sent it out to a couple
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  Speaker 1: of people. I wanted to read it before we went
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  Speaker 1: forward with it.
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  Speaker 2: And I had one friend that went back and says, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just have a whole bunch of grammatical things we
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  Speaker 2: need to fix on it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, come on. She's like, boy, you like commas.
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  Speaker 3: That's where I make my errors. Like when I write,
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  Speaker 3: the commas. I have so many commas.
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  Speaker 1: I throw in commas like they're free. And you know what?
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  Speaker 1: They are.
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  Speaker 3: I do the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: Because you're writing as you talk. You're like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: where you take a pause.
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  Speaker 3: And so there's where our other grandmother, my mom's mom...
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  Speaker 3: We would write them, and she would write back, and
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  Speaker 3: I will never forget this. She wrote back. She said, Terry,
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  Speaker 3: I love when I receive a letter from you because
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that you're sitting right across that table
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  Speaker 3: from me while I'm drinking my coffee, and I can
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  Speaker 3: hear you say these stories in person. As you write,
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  Speaker 3: you write like you talk, and I just love it. And,
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  Speaker 3: of course, I wrote her all the time. Yeah. But
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  Speaker 3: it's why that was the beginning of my love for writing. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: how neat. In the style that I do write.
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  Speaker 1: Which, of course, is how we found you to come
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  Speaker 1: on to American Ground Radio, too, was through your writing
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  Speaker 1: because you were prolific with it.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. She is the best at it.
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  Speaker 1: And we liked all the commas.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, that's my girl. She and I are going to,
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  Speaker 3: we're comma people.
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  Speaker 4: I think when someone you care about corrects you, there's
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  Speaker 4: no problem. I think that when you have like a
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  Speaker 4: stranger online that corrects you, like you.
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  Speaker 3: Use there, it's mean.
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  Speaker 1: It feels rude.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, so I think it's, if there's somebody
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  Speaker 4: that you care about that just wants you to sound
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  Speaker 4: good and not make you look, you know, silly or
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  Speaker 4: be embarrassed.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, but let's talk about there.
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  Speaker 4: So Terry did not feel that for me because she
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  Speaker 4: let me go for so long.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just say this about the there. The T-H-E-I-R,
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  Speaker 3: the T-H-E-R-E, and E-Y.
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  Speaker 1: T-H-E-Y plus V-R-E.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, now that's legit. I think any stranger could come
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  Speaker 3: on there and say... It's wrong there. And help me,
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  Speaker 3: like circle. I've had people do that. They'll circle, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Denise Walker. She'll send me a screenshot of my writing,
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  Speaker 3: and if I use the wrong form... And correct it,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, thank you, and I correct it real fast.
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  Speaker 3: But those three, you've got to get the two, two,
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  Speaker 3: and two.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, those two.
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  Speaker 3: The two, two, and two.
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  Speaker 2: If you'd like to ask our American Mamas a question,
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  Speaker 2: go to our website, AmericanGramRadio.com, slash Mamas, and click on
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  Speaker 2: the Ask the Mamas button.
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  Speaker 1: We will not correct your grammar.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I might.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we might correct your grammar. Terry and Kimberly,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.