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Common grammar and usage errors
12/22/04
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Posted on 12/22/2004 9:32:13 AM PST by georgiadevildog
I am starting a grammar thread at the behest of Xenalyte and TheMom. Post your most irritating pet peeves of grammar or usage here.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: allyourbase; aybabtu; bare; barebutt; bear; bearbutt; beesting; but; butt; cheese; computergeeks; geeks; grammar; grammer; grammergeeks; hammer; hi; high; howardhuges; huge; hugh; hughhefner; hughjackman; loose; lose; loss; me; meandmike; mike; mikeandme; mine; moose; moosecheese; saycheese; series; serious; spellinbe; spellingbeehive; stupidvanity; their; there; usage; whatyousay; your; youre
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Your = belonging to y'all Reminds me of another one: lose/loose. I once got a post to me that said "Your a looser."
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:47:29 AM PST
by
general_re
("What's plausible to you is unimportant." - D'man)
To: georgiadevildog
I just hate it when sentences don't a verb.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:47:59 AM PST
by
dinasour
(Pajamahadeen)
To: Jack Deth
Hugh has a hugh background story.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:48:06 AM PST
by
JennysCool
(Prayers up 24/7 for Allegra's safe return.)
To: Jack Deth
I'm looking at my keyboard and there is no way that the far too often used phrase "This is Hugh!" for "This is Huge" could be a typo!I hope you weren't being series!
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:48:21 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("Just because you were born stupid doesn't give you any right to be stupid!" - Paul Watson to Makahs)
To: georgiadevildog
My pet peeve is when people use numbers or single letters to represent words: "R U going 2 the store?" Makes me want to scream!
(p.s., I have the official typing, homophone, and all-around verbal mayhem ping list! "Typso Threw the Tulips and broke his shift key." Ping to get on or off!)
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:48:41 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Jesus is the reason for the season which begins at sundown on December 24.)
To: Tax-chick
I'd like to be on that ping list, iff'n you'll have me.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:49:29 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("Just because you were born stupid doesn't give you any right to be stupid!" - Paul Watson to Makahs)
To: Jack Deth
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:49:45 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Jesus is the reason for the season which begins at sundown on December 24.)
To: Tax-chick
My pet peeve is when people use numbers or single letters to represent words: "R U going 2 the store?" O I C what U mean.
;)
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:50:20 AM PST
by
general_re
("What's plausible to you is unimportant." - D'man)
To: jellybean
First: your / you're:
Your is always possessive. If the word is NOT designed to show ownership of something, "your" is the wrong choice.
You're is always a contraction of the words "you are." If you remove "you're" from the sentence and replace it with "you are," it should still make perfect sense.
Second: who / whom:
I must be honest. I still do not have total mastery of these two words and their usage. Most of the time, I can get them right. Other times, I can't decide which to use, and I wind up changing the sentence to eliminate the need to use the word. As a general rule, though, "who" is the subjective form of the pronoun, while "whom" is the objective. In other words, "who" would be used as the subject of a sentence, while "whom" would be used as the object.
Best example I know: "Who did what to whom?"
"Who" is the subject, and "whom" is the object.
Third: here / hear.
If your word has nothing to do with sound or the sense of hearing, then "hear" is not your word. That is the basic test. Still, on this one, I must admit a single weakness in usage. When I hear someone say, "Here, here" as a gesture of agreement to the comments of another, I don't know which to use.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:50:41 AM PST
by
georgiadevildog
(Get to work. You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.)
To: lupie
To: general_re
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:51:55 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("Just because you were born stupid doesn't give you any right to be stupid!" - Paul Watson to Makahs)
To: general_re
LMAO @ "looser."
What is it, exactly, that you loose on a regular basis?
The warden who releases convicts that have served their time would be a looser, I suppose.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:53:08 AM PST
by
georgiadevildog
(Get to work. You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.)
To: Chad Fairbanks
You're on! I've been sending out a ping two or three times a week. Typso (typing errors that say something really funny) and Homophunny are first level violations. "my kingdom for a shift key" and "THe Cat iS LYinG on MY sHIft Key" are secondary, like seat-belt tickets :-).
The list is at the bottom of my profile page, if you ever want to use it.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:53:39 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Jesus is the reason for the season which begins at sundown on December 24.)
To: Tax-chick
I have the same problem with people who use "&" instead of "and", "thru", instead of "through."
To: Tax-chick
Oh, you've gotta add me! My wife calls me a geek because I am so anal about grammar. She says she had to hire an editor to check her emails before she sends them to me. It's hilarious.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:54:41 AM PST
by
georgiadevildog
(Get to work. You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:54:46 AM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
("Just because you were born stupid doesn't give you any right to be stupid!" - Paul Watson to Makahs)
To: Tax-chick; Chad Fairbanks
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!
Nice ones, guys.
I've been FReeping here since September, Tax-chick.
I don't think that makes me "new".
Yes, I'm serious... And don't call me "Surely".
Jack.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:54:59 AM PST
by
Jack Deth
(When In Doubt.... Empty The Magazine!)
To: georgiadevildog
I thought those were homonyms...oh, my lexicon tells me that it's a synonym. Good thing there's not a (syn)tax on improper grammar.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:55:36 AM PST
by
Senior Chief
(Here I am, right where I left myself.)
To: Military family member
nite, lite, rite?
Right, write, rite, wright
What other words have four or more homophones?
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:55:47 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Jesus is the reason for the season which begins at sundown on December 24.)
To: georgiadevildog
Their, their... calm down
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:56:17 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(I support a strong defense policy, but see no reason to conduct it while sober.)
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