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Chapter 2 Word Choice
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weather misspeaks, part 1
Mrs. B knows weather folks work without a net.
She did it, too, for a few years early in her career.
Ad-lib is what you do.
You don't have a script or the prompter to break your fall.
But you don't want to get careless and tumble into illogical and
ungrammatical language.
So let's go over a few common misspeaks.
"The thermometer is falling."
If that were the case, you'd have to worry about it crashing to the
ground and breaking.
Try this, instead:
v
The TEMPERATURE is falling.
"The temperatures are going to cool off."
Temperatures don't heat up or cool off.
The weather does.
"The winds are calm."
Wait a minute.
If the air is calm, there isn't any wind.
So winds can't be calm.
Mrs. B suggests:
v
The air is calm this evening.
Or
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There's no wind today.
We'll look at more weather misspeaks in the next lesson.
