Posted on 09/28/2011 1:00:49 PM PDT by iowamark
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.
Don’t know...
Further and Farther confuses me.
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.
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.
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.
LOL! snort))))
That’s one of my most frequent mistakes. I guess I didn’t deserve an A in grammer.
“Get The Hammer Mama, There’s A Head On Papa’s Fly “
Watch, that will go over someone’s head.
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.)
But seriously, the'your' used where the contraction of you and are is one of my favorite fox paws on the Net.
But seriously, the 'your' used where the contraction of you and are is one of my favorite fox paws on the Net.
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.
Silly me. Or rather my Engrish teacher. So “cheap” is “unexpensive” after all.
You left out the comma (coma?) before the object.
And link that last phrase to your blog page.
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???
“coinky-dinky” or “coinky dinky” or “coinkydinky”?
When was the last time you heard “lickety split”?
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