To: arthurus
"Demonstrating two pernicious public school innovations in English. Loose-lose seems to have been cleared up so now there is serious-series and Hugh-huge."
You have only scanned the tip of the iceberg here. You are probably aware of the following, also:
there -- their
your -- you're
its -- it's
The above combinations are used interchangably as though they are equivalent. And one other comes to mind, the use of the word "unique" as though there are degrees of "unique-ness".
Ain't public school grand?
To: webstersII
there -- their
your -- you're
its -- it's Alas, those are perenniel and at least, sometimes, are due to hasty keyboarding- typos.
To: webstersII
But, after Clinton, I am constantly confused as to which "is" I am supposed to use.
422 posted on
04/10/2003 3:55:55 PM PDT by
Petruchio
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