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		<title>Baseball Rules: A Perfect Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baseball seems simple but on the surface it is very complicated. Many of the baseball rules are very subtle. But there are some basics: Nine innings. Each team comes up to bat once, beginning with the visiting team. Each team is at bat until there are three outs. The team that is ahead after nine <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/12/baseball-rules-innings-outs/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>me and him: American Idol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heard on American Idol:  &#8220;&#8221;It&#8217;s been a year since me and Lauren Alaina have tried out now,&#8221; McCreery said. &#8220;Me and her have been together since day one and we&#8217;re gonna stay together.&#8221; Even some of our favorite singers, such as the quote above from Scotty McCreery, Season 11 American Idol winner, are saying this.  <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/11/me-and-him-american-idol/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ancestry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When people move and emigrate to a new land, they often lose track of their ancestry.  Records are lost, memories are lost.  When the older generation dies, there is often nobody left to tell the story of their ancestry to the younger generation. In the United States, websites abound that specialize in doing ancestral searches.   <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/11/searching-for-ancestors/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/11/searching-for-ancestors/</link>
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		<title>Wild Turkeys on My Roof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Native Americans. Thanksgiving is coming, but do these turkeys care? And who said that turkeys can&#8217;t fly? In our neighborhood, in our city, wild turkeys roam the streets in flocks of eight to twelve turkeys. They walk slowly, and stop at each home and peck the ground to see if they can find food. They <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/11/wild-turkeys-on-roof-native-american-thanksgiving/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>him and me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all heard it: We&#8217;ve all heard people say &#8220;Him and me went&#8230;&#8221;. We&#8217;ve heard people say &#8220;Her and me went&#8230;&#8221; and we&#8217;ve heard people say &#8220;Me and him went&#8230;&#8221;. But are these correct English? Is this something you want to learn and repeat? The truth is that it is painful to hear English spoken <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/11/him-and-me-english-pronouns/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/11/him-and-me-english-pronouns/</link>
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		<title>English Is My Worst Subject</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;English is my worst subject.&#8221;  True or False? Whenever I tell people I&#8217;m an English teacher, they say &#8220;Uh oh&#8230; English was my worst subject in school.&#8221; Now what did they mean by this? These are people who are native speakers of English! So how could English have been their worst subject in school? I <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/10/trouble-with-english/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/10/trouble-with-english/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Rafael Nadal (in my dreams)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my &#8220;in my dreams&#8221; interview with Rafael Nadal, one of the world&#8217;s greatest tennis players, from Mallorca, Spain. ** Rafa, first I want to say that I love watching you play.  You are my favorite tennis player. Thank you very much. I have always loved watching the Spanish tennis players, including the great <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/06/interview-with-rafael-nadal-in-my-dreams/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/06/interview-with-rafael-nadal-in-my-dreams/</link>
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		<title>Presidents&#8217; Day or President&#8217;s Day?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the name of the holiday President&#8217;s Day or Presidents&#8217; Day? Or is it Presidents&#8217; Day? One of the most misunderstood aspects of proper English grammar is the use of the apostrophe for plural possessives. Let&#8217;s explore this in regards to the holiday that honors America&#8217;s Presidents &#8211; and that we celebrate each year on <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/02/plural-possessives-presidents-day/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/02/plural-possessives-presidents-day/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, the holiday is &#8220;Martin Luther King Day&#8221; but the person we honor isn&#8217;t Martin Luther King but his son, Martin Luther King, Jr. What does the &#8220;Jr.&#8221; after somebody&#8217;s name mean? What does it stand for? The &#8220;Jr.&#8221; stands for the word &#8220;Junior&#8221;, which is the appellation used when a son takes <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/01/martin-luther-king-jr-day/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2011/01/martin-luther-king-jr-day/</link>
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		<title>Everybody: he or she?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting debate took place among English faculty at the college where I used to teach.  We faculty were looking at one of the students&#8217; essays in my Easy Writer software and the following sentence created a stir among us: &#8220;There is just one day in a person&#8217;s life when he celebrates with a big <a href='http://www.eslhelpdesk.com/blog/2010/10/everybody-he-or-she-pronoun-reference-english-grammmar/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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