Posted on 02/01/2012 12:47:25 PM PST by Daffynition
Just yesterday I read on this forum a long philosophical treatise, in which the author failed to distinguish between “its” and “it’s”. I had to dismiss the entire thing. I doubt he and others like him will ever read this thread. They know better, they excuse themselves silly.
What I hate is when people say “these ones”. It is redundant and incorrect. “These” is already standing in for the noun. You should say simply “I like these” instead.
If you pay attention to the usage fewer & less, you’ll see people get it wrong most of the time. Usually using less when they should be using fewer.
If you pay attention to the usage fewer & less, you’ll see people get it wrong most of the time. Usually using less when they should be using fewer.
I suggest the tried-and-true classic The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White.
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Thank you for the tip. I will be getting it.
It is frustrating— my grammar is so poor that I sometimes search out another way to write something to avoid things like affect/effect and much more. And then I end up with a bigger mess than if I went the first route.
Does the book help teach punctuation at all? I really need help there, too. If not, do you know a good one for punctuation?
I’ve tried a few websites that I didn’t find very helpful.
Thanks again!
Where is the lesson on run-on sentences that people always use incorrectly and is even common in legal documents written by smart people that passed a bar exam following degree achievments in Ivy League schools?
(A period here and there is a good thing. But it sometimes make the sentences short and crabby.)
Tortuous and torturous are a confusing pair of words.
i love proper grammar when i am allowed by my little boss more than 2 fingers to type, but i am guilty of the moot and the nauseous errors!
I have never apostrophized an "s". You dirty man, you.
For whatever reason my sister never got “How about you?” right.
She would always say “He about you?”
Then after she died from cancer I started saying “He about you?”, whenever I could.
I guess for the love of my sister, I get it wrong.
Nope. I hate all of those words and want you to hit them with a piece of track and field equipment. If there were only two or three I would have asked you to shot put them.
Reading text containing a homonym of the word intended is my newest pet peeve. I’ll find one or two a day in things like newspapers or online articles. It drives me crazy!
Please read the following mathematical statement out loud:
x < 5ML/NJ
Hemorrhoids are never tight? What about a thrombosed hemorrhoid? That’s pretty tight. Instead, think of “loose” and “stools” together.
Are we "doing" spelling too? Lol
Strunk has punctuation too. I think of it as the tiny grammar bible.
Loose and lose
Alot(not a word)
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