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Second-graders correct NFL players’ tweets

By Valerie Strauss, Published: February 4, 2013 at 12:19 pmE-mail the writer

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Second-graders at Elmwood Franklin Elementary School in Buffalo, N.Y., used their grammar lessons to correct tweets from NFL players. The school’s Facebook page says that kids “partnered in groups and together found several mistakes in these tweets, including the incorrect spelling of ‘a lot.’ ”

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