Grammar Rocks
POSTED BY: maugwai
UPDATED: Saturday, October 30, 2004 01:32
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Okay, so that I don't go nuts and start correcting the grammar of every post I see and really piss people off, I decided to put all my general grammar observations in one post. This way, grammar nerds can vent, and non-native English speakers - and for that matter, grammar-challenged English speakers - can learn a thing or two about the language. I know we had a similar pet peeve thread not too long ago, but I thought it was time for a review.
1) a lot (not alot)
2) An apostrophe means only two things - posession or contraction - never to pluralize. To pluralize, you add and "s" or "es" as in "dogs"
3) Stop putting quotes around everything! As in "God" bless America. That implies that you do not actually believe in God. Okay, maybe that's one I saw on a bumper sticker and not here, but still. It's annoying.
4) The assault weapons band was repealed, not appealed.
Feel free to add your own grammatical errors at will.
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Ooh, ooh, may I? <-- look how proper I am!
5) Your/You're The latter is used as a contraction of "you are." That's the only time you use it.
6) Further/Farther Further is degree, as in "I must push myself further to win." Farther is distance. "Go a little farther down the road."
7) Like alot, alright is a non-standard use of "all right." That means, it looks weird when it's used a hundred times in a large, professional novel by, say, author Laurell K. Hamilton, scourge of proper spelling and grammar believers everywhere.
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Where do I start? :) I teach high school English and I am convinced the Internet will be the death of the English language. All the various misuses of "their/there/they're". Oh yeah, and people who write "should of" instead of "should have".
Simply evil.
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Quote:Corollary to (2): Possessive "its" has no apostrophe.
Originally posted by maugwai:
2) An apostrophe means only two things - posession or contraction - never to pluralize. To pluralize, you add and "s" or "es" as in "dogs"
it's = it is
its = belonging to it
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Can't help it...
WILLOW:Why would anybody want to...oh.
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Quote:Heck, I do that all the time. I do it in the Gunrunners RP, and for every post I reply to. Just because the person who initiated the post is using bad grammar doesn't mean I have to. A girl has to have her principles, right?
Originally posted by maugwai:
Okay, so that I don't go nuts and start correcting the grammar of every post I see and really piss people off...
In fact, if I sinned grammatically, let me know!
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Quote:
Originally posted by maugwai:
Feel free to add your own grammatical errors at will.
not really a grammar thing, but the phrase "i could not care less." most often, people seem to write or say "i could care less". i feel this is not as strong a statement (though not necessarily incorrect). this phrase is most often used to imply that something is so utterly unimportant to you that it ranks as the absolute, dead last thing on your mind. thus, there is nothing else that you care less about. so saying, "i could care less" says that there IS something else you care less about and the topic at hand is NOT the bottom of the list. it seems natural to think that "i could not" or "i couldn't care less" is the more appropriate statement.
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Quote:Channain, Channain, Channain.... A preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with.
Originally posted by Channain:Quote:Heck, I do that all the time. I do it in the Gunrunners RP, and for every post I reply to.
Originally posted by maugwai:
Okay, so that I don't go nuts and start correcting the grammar of every post I see and really piss people off...
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The error that most gets my dander up is not very often a printed mistake but in conversation. Double negatives 
" I don't got no more bannanas." If you don't got NO bannanas then you have SOME! Also a local pronunciation of ASK- as AXE. "she axed me to go with her" It makes me literally cringe.
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Quote:See, that's the good thing about practicing good grammar in other situations. When you screw up like that, those who don't know any better can't see it. On the upside, at least I spelled it "to" and not "two" or "too"... hey is there a "teux"? And if so, did I just swear?
Originally posted by Hell's Kitchen
Channain, Channain, Channain.... A preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with.
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