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7 Spelling and Grammar Errors that Make You Look Dumb
work.lifegoesstrong.com ^ | August 5, 2011 | Leslie Ayres

Posted on 09/28/2011 1:00:49 PM PDT by iowamark

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To: yarddog

You’re making it sound simple because you’re only using present tense. It gets confusing because lay is also the past tense of lie. Toss lain and laid in there and it’s really confusing. Even though I know the rules, my dog lay down on couch last night sounds wrong. I intuitively want to use the participle and say/write “laid” even though I know it’s incorrect.


181 posted on 09/28/2011 6:32:58 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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To: ToxicMich

Don’t know...


182 posted on 09/28/2011 6:33:26 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: iowamark

Further and Farther confuses me.


183 posted on 09/28/2011 6:34:18 PM PDT by Scarpetta (e pluribus victim)
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To: Revolting cat!

I thought bad grammar and semi-literate expressions were just staples in country music? I’ve told my wife that I’ve been allergic to country music ever since I heard the immortal line, “You burn me up like a chicken at a barbeque” coming from her car stereo.


184 posted on 09/28/2011 6:37:07 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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To: iowamark

And then there are those on this site, all of them conspicuously missing from this thread, who when you dare to point out their confusion of itses with it’ses, resort to calling Kelsey Grammer a Nazi, a connection too obscure for me, but that’s probably my uninformed fault.


185 posted on 09/28/2011 6:38:48 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Scarpetta

That one’s easy. Farther is for physical distances only, and further is never for physical distances. If you can’t walk it, drive it, sail it or fly it, it’s further.


186 posted on 09/28/2011 6:39:41 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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To: Eaker

LOL! snort))))


187 posted on 09/28/2011 6:40:26 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Revolting cat!

That’s one of my most frequent mistakes. I guess I didn’t deserve an A in grammer.


188 posted on 09/28/2011 6:42:08 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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To: Melas

“Get The Hammer Mama, There’s A Head On Papa’s Fly “


189 posted on 09/28/2011 6:42:40 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Melas

Watch, that will go over someone’s head.


190 posted on 09/28/2011 6:42:53 PM PDT by Melas (u)
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To: iowamark

The one I hate is “all the sudden” or “all of the sudden” instead of “all of a sudden.”

http://grammartips.homestead.com/sudden.html

http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/all-of-what-sudden/

(Interestingly, the second link says that in the 1500s “the sudden” was the common form of the idiom. But not today.)


191 posted on 09/28/2011 6:43:45 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Scarpetta
What, you don't say 'and farther more, in these parts we ...'?

But seriously, the'your' used where the contraction of you and are is one of my favorite fox paws on the Net.

192 posted on 09/28/2011 6:45:02 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Scarpetta
What, you don't say 'and farther more, in these parts we ...'?

But seriously, the 'your' used where the contraction of you and are is one of my favorite fox paws on the Net.

193 posted on 09/28/2011 6:45:22 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Melas

Actually, accusing someone of “begging the question” means that the answer they have given in no way addresses the issue in the original question but instead assumes the premise to be true, or offers a “non-answer”.

Probably today’s questioners don’t wish to be as confrontational and accusatory as the phrase originally was crafted to be.


194 posted on 09/28/2011 6:47:13 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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To: Melas

Silly me. Or rather my Engrish teacher. So “cheap” is “unexpensive” after all.


195 posted on 09/28/2011 6:47:24 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Eaker

You left out the comma (coma?) before the object.


196 posted on 09/28/2011 6:49:39 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Eaker
When it would be much more accurate to say, “Good morning butthole.”

And link that last phrase to your blog page.

197 posted on 09/28/2011 6:49:52 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

One of our department managers uses ‘definitAly’ instead of inserting e’.

Our VP embarrassed him in front of the staff. I feel for the guy. But for crying out loud, the guy is 45 years old and still spells that way???


198 posted on 09/28/2011 6:50:13 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
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To: iowamark

“coinky-dinky” or “coinky dinky” or “coinkydinky”?


199 posted on 09/28/2011 6:51:07 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: iowamark

When was the last time you heard “lickety split”?


200 posted on 09/28/2011 6:52:12 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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