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re: They're, Their, There Now.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:26 pm to Mud_Till_May
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:26 pm to Mud_Till_May
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Nazi's
ISWYDT
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:27 pm to The Third Leg
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This is not grammar nazi material. No; these things should be mastered before middle school.
Fify
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:31 pm to Green Chili Tiger
I can assure you that most Americans have not mastered these words by middle school. They have not for a long time.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:31 pm to foshizzle
quote:
ISWYDT
quote:
foshizzle
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Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:33 pm to The Third Leg
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these things should be mastered before JR. high school.
fify
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:33 pm to SabiDojo
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Another one bites the dust.
ETA: 3 now
I mean sweet Mary's vagina, are people really this stupid?
... Don't answer that. I already know the answer.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:37 pm to Mud_Till_May
Most 4th graders know this stuff.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:40 pm to Sparkplug#1
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This post was edited on 9/16/14 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:45 pm to LoveThatMoney
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I mean sweet Mary's vagina, are people really this stupid?
... Don't answer that. I already know the answer.
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Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:53 pm to SwatMitchell
quote:grammatically incorrect no matter what.
y'all = you all
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:53 pm to Mud_Till_May
"effect" can also be a verb.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 2:56 pm to Mo Jeaux
but affect is always a verb
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:03 pm to Displaced
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but affect is always a verb
Just to be a dick, I'll say that's not exactly true. But its use as a noun is highly atypical, and 99.9% of the folks here would use it as a noun incorrectly.
For the image posted in the OP... I want to believe that most of the common grammar mistakes are simply typos and not a result of poor education. I really, really want to believe it.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:06 pm to Mud_Till_May
i will say what i want irregardless of the lurking grammar nazis
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:11 pm to Topwater Trout
For all intensive purposes, Nazi talk makes me quiet Hungary.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:22 pm to Placebeaux
No possessive pronouns do not have apostrophes
See hers and yours
See hers and yours
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:26 pm to The Third Leg
Serious question though, how do you feel when people speak in Ebonics and purposely misuse the English language?
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:29 pm to Mud_Till_May
I believe that they are from a place where that vernacular was most prominent.
It is not willfull, it is habitual.
It is not willfull, it is habitual.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:33 pm to Mud_Till_May
I need a refresher on 'lay' and 'lie'.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 3:36 pm to TrueTiger
Lie is an intransitive verb (one that does not take an object), meaning "to recline." Its principal parts are lie (base form), lay (past tense), lain (past participal), and lying (present participle).
[Lie meaning "to tell an untruth" uses lied for both the past tense and past participle, with lying as the present participle.]
Lay is a transitive verb (one that takes an object), meaning "to put" or "to place." Its principal parts are lay (base form), laid (past tense), laid (past participle), and laying (present participle).
The two words have different meanings and are not interchangeable. Although lay also serves as the past tense of lie (to recline) – as in, "He lay down for a nap an hour ago" – lay (or laying) may not otherwise be used to denote reclining. It is not correct to say or write, "I will lay down for nap" or "He is laying down for a nap." The misuse of lay or laying in the sense of "to recline" (which requires lie or lying) is the most common error involving the confusion of these two words.
> Once you lay (put or place) a book on the desk, it is lying (reclining, resting) there, not laying there.
> When you go to Bermuda for your vacation, you spend your time lying (not laying) on the beach (unless, of course, you are engaged in sexual activity and are, in the vernacular, laying someone on the beach).
> You lie down on the sofa to watch TV and spend the entire evening lying there; you do not lay down on the sofa to watch TV and spend the entire evening laying there.
> If you see something lying on the ground, it is just resting there; if you see something laying on the ground, it must be doing something else, such as laying eggs.
[Lie meaning "to tell an untruth" uses lied for both the past tense and past participle, with lying as the present participle.]
Lay is a transitive verb (one that takes an object), meaning "to put" or "to place." Its principal parts are lay (base form), laid (past tense), laid (past participle), and laying (present participle).
The two words have different meanings and are not interchangeable. Although lay also serves as the past tense of lie (to recline) – as in, "He lay down for a nap an hour ago" – lay (or laying) may not otherwise be used to denote reclining. It is not correct to say or write, "I will lay down for nap" or "He is laying down for a nap." The misuse of lay or laying in the sense of "to recline" (which requires lie or lying) is the most common error involving the confusion of these two words.
> Once you lay (put or place) a book on the desk, it is lying (reclining, resting) there, not laying there.
> When you go to Bermuda for your vacation, you spend your time lying (not laying) on the beach (unless, of course, you are engaged in sexual activity and are, in the vernacular, laying someone on the beach).
> You lie down on the sofa to watch TV and spend the entire evening lying there; you do not lay down on the sofa to watch TV and spend the entire evening laying there.
> If you see something lying on the ground, it is just resting there; if you see something laying on the ground, it must be doing something else, such as laying eggs.
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