Writing 3.8 – Writer and Wronger

Some of you who have been following and reading, and stalking, for a while might remember a series of posts in which I examined common grammar and punctuation errors.  At first, it was done rather straightforward, but then it got out of hand.  I was illustrating errors with pictures of women puking in the streets…

– ima be ima be saying

There was this headline today on Yahoo!news that linked to a Redbook magazine story about parenting:             “Should mom be selling girl scout cookies for her daughter?” Why “be selling”?  What is wrong with “Should mom sell Girl Scout cookies for her daughter?” There’s a growing, and annoying, prevalence of “be” in language, and I’m…