He is expelling all the Jews from the Executive Branch?
Which is it?
Choose Your Words
personal/ personnel
Choose the right word for each sentence:
XYZ Co. is letting go of personal/personnel at an alarming rate.
My personal/personnel files include notes on how to take over the world using just a red paperclip.
Match.com and other dating sites have eliminated the need to advertise in the personals/personnels.
The HR department kept James’ personal/personnel file updated with all the complaints about his work habits.
Personal and personnel can be confused if the writer is not diligent, especially as both can be used as a noun and an adjective. Let’s go through the quiz to uncover all four usages.
The first example could say that XYZ Co. is laying off employees or staff; the correct choice here is personnel, a plural noun. You wouldn’t have one personnel; you’d have many.
The second sentence calls for personal. Personal refers to something of a particular person’s, something done in person, something related to a person, and so on. My files belong to me; they are personal. They don’t have anything to do with my employer.
The third sentence refers to those ads placed in a newspaper by people looking for romance or wishing to send messages to others. Personals is the correct, if increasingly rare, choice.
In the final sentence, a personnel file is an employee file. Although the file is about one person and is somewhat private, it is limited to James’ work life at his current company; it is a file kept by the company about its employee.
To remember which word is which, try this: Personnel has two ns, just as a company has to have at least two employees to have personnel. Anything personal (one n) is about one individual.
Who’s writing his teleprompter speech? One of his puppet handlers?
Valerie Jarret promoted to first lady?
He’s finally firing Sebelius?
Another shout out?
personnel... doh! After reading tabloids and in my haste, I read *personal.
he’s outing himself...
by replacing Michelle with Hillary?
Whatever the announcement, it will be bad for Christians, working people, and America.
Whatever this announcement is—it’s been calculated to garner him sympathy and benefit the communists some how.
He will sign some Executive Orders to take complete control of the country and disband and arrest the members of House and Senate
Valerie Jarrett or Sebelius.
“I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions”
—Barack Hussein Obama
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
—Thomas Jefferson
I know what it is . . . Mooch-elle went to the emergency entrance at MACCO for plastic surgery, and they ran out of Spackle and BONDO. So, she’ll be out of the White House for a few months. Reggie Love will be her replacement.
He is getting a sex alteration procedure, no adadicktome.
She’s rested and ready! Here comes Hillary!
IS HE DYING?????????????
Out with the old scumbag, in with the new scumbag. BFD.