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WHO or WHOM? A 90% Trick
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| bannie
Posted on 04/30/2003 6:15:29 PM PDT by bannie
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To: Revolting cat!
hahaha! I've seen 'em hoot louder than that!
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posted on
04/30/2003 9:55:19 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Sarcasm is lost on those who do not understand the smiley face.
To: bannie
D'oh! Good one! I thought I was being all clever and stuff!!!
The funniest post of yours, that I remember, was on a 'tattoo' thread. Various ones of us were arguing about the pros and cons and innocence and hellfire of body tattoos and about two weeks later the thread bumped up again when you posted: "I just wanted to get this thread out and play with it again."
To: Fifth Business
I've got the book 'Fifth Business' on my bookshelf.
Good one, Dunstan...
To: Fifth Business
Not to mention "epicenter" to mean "center".
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posted on
04/30/2003 10:01:55 PM PDT
by
Romulus
To: chookter
Davies is great, isn't he? How are the pipes, Chookter?
To: T Minus Four
it is = it's
belonging to it = its I believe it's the only possesive form that doesn't use an apostophe.
No pronouns have apostrophes.
Contractions always have apostrophes at the point at which the extra letters were squeezed out.
It is = it's (the "i" was squeezed out by the contraction, and in its place, you must put an apostrophe.
I've = I have (The "ha" was squeezed out by the contraction [like muscles squeeze when they contract]...in their collective place, one puts the apostrophe.)
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posted on
04/30/2003 10:02:13 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: gcruse
You don't have to tell me.I know that many know much more than do I. I had just encountered some interest. I meant no offense.
248
posted on
04/30/2003 10:05:12 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds
what about she and her? All I know about this: "She" is subjective (the subject of a sentence or clause); and "her" is objective (the Direct Object, the Indirect Object or the Object of the Preposition.
249
posted on
04/30/2003 10:09:09 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: jejones
Now, to get people not to write "loose" when they mean "lose"HAHA! Losers are loose with the rules.
250
posted on
04/30/2003 10:10:43 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: potlatch
I'm not even going to use those words around you!! LOL Aw...cummon...this only came up because the subject of the post was about an English teacher who was having trouble passing a math test.
I'm an English teacher, and I hope I never have to teach math! (My father, however, was a math teacher early in his career.)
I certainly passed the math portion of the CBEST test--and on the first try. I finished my required statistics course--but not handily.
I guess that my point was, simply, that someone can know enough to teach one thing while not know enough to volunteer to teach something else.
:-) I speak in the vernacular most of the time! ;-)
251
posted on
04/30/2003 10:18:12 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: Spirited
A "bad button" for me is hearing, "Good" as a reply to, "How are you?".You can BE good; but you FEEL well.
(Good = adjective: Well = adverb)
252
posted on
04/30/2003 10:20:55 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: Fifth Business
They are singing. I've been playing quite a lot lately and they are sounding good.
Thanks.
Look at this:
http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1047749804460_2003/03/19/iraq12,1.jpg
Scots Dragoon Guard playing the pipe in Iraq
To: bannie
I was teasing. Like most people, I almost never use 'whom'. It's been a long time since I was in school!! LOL. Your thread really got long, I'll have to go back and read the rest of it.
To: VermiciousKnid
To determine if a word is a preposition, fill in the blank...Prepositions show relationships. UNDER, BECAUSE OF, WITHOUT, DURING, etc.!)
255
posted on
04/30/2003 10:26:44 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: NCLaw441
What parent doesn't want THEIR child to succeed? It's still not safe: It's incorrect. To use "their," it would require that "parent" be "parents." I simply write "his/her," and no one (noone) has questioned this usage.
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posted on
04/30/2003 10:29:50 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: T Minus Four
Be My Little General.Ingrained
257
posted on
04/30/2003 10:39:31 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: chookter
"I just wanted to get this thread out and play with it again."gasp! er...that must have been...er...my playful twin.
:-)
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posted on
04/30/2003 10:41:23 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
To: bannie
I have forgotten so much grammar over the years, but who and whom have never been a problem. The problem that I have been having lately is trying to remember when the quotation marks go inside the period and when they go outside. I seem to remember that there were occasions, like the name of an article or story that was not a complete phrase, when the quotation marks went inside. Anyway, I just avoid using quotation marks as much as possible.
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posted on
04/30/2003 10:45:26 PM PDT
by
Eva
To: Eva
Quotation marks:
Keep the period, comma, semicolon inside of the quotes.
Put the question mark inside ONLY IF THAT WHICH IS IN THE QUOTES IS the question.
Do you want to vote, "No"?
We heard him when he asked, "Where is that damned Billyblythe Clinton?"
I made a "blooper": He made a simple "bloop."
Clinton told his "tall tale;" however, his "Little 'Lady' " wrote it.
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posted on
04/30/2003 10:53:58 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a poor speller--mixed with the curse of verbosity)
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