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A representative of the Burbank Human Relations Council writes words of gratitude for participants in the recent event and to the VWF for hosting it.
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Girls’ Soccer: Defending champion Indians suffer 2-0 Pacific League road defeat against first-place Arcadia.
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State and federal funding does not provide enough to maintain a high-quality education, Aghakhanian writes, so Measure I could provide a much-needed boost to BUSD’s coffers.
The Frankensentence is a useful concept. The idea is that in English, which lets you use any number of connective tools to cobble together phrases and clauses, it’s possible to cobble together so many phrases and clauses that your reader gets lost — or at least turned off.
Two Burbank residents write on different projects; one the L.A. River bike path and the other construction on I-5.
Reader Janice has noticed a trend involving the word fraught. “Things used to be fraught with something (danger, enmity, etc.),” she wrote. “But now they are just fraught.”
The Wednesday, Jan. 8, edition of the Leader featured a full-page ad that encourages voters to not sign petitions that express opposition to the upcoming La Terra project located at 777 Front St.
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There’s a one-word key to finding the answer: subjunctive. That’s the term for the grammar dynamic that determines whether “was” or “were” is best.
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A compound modifier is two or more words working like an adjective to modify another word, usually a noun.
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Vice Mayor Bob Frutos reflects on the holiday season and looks ahead to 2020.
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I know a thing or two about the writing habits that confuse people. Here are some pitfalls to avoid if you want everyone, even me, to understand your writing.
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Commas set off nonrestrictive matter, but they’re not used around restrictive stuff.
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More Americans are being sent home to die, placing an overwhelming financial and caregiving burden on families.
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False eyelashes and heavy makeup are acceptable for women who must go on camera, but they’re another thing for everyday life.
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A retired pilot says a terrain warning system might not have prevented the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant.
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Roger Stone’s pending sentencing offers a timely reminder of the scope of scandalous behavior in Trump’s orbit.
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Hey, flight shamers: Aviation is responsible for only 2.4% of global carbon dioxide emissions and is the second most efficient form of transportation.
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Burbank High School sophomore Evie Swierczynski lost her battle with acute myeloid leukemia on Tuesday evening less than six months after her diagnosis.
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Gary Moskowitz MAGNOLIA PARK -- It’s not going to be easy for Ken Tada to leave John Burroughs High School.
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There’s a rule about ampersands that doesn’t exist, even though countless people follow it anyway.
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