I KNOW.... nobody on this board needs this, but it couldn't hurt!!
#1
Junior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Central,CALIF.
Posts: 285
I KNOW.... nobody on this board needs this, but it couldn't hurt!!
#3
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: north Alabama
Posts: 1,907
These are great..... Thanks for the link NUBQ! Sometimes it's hard to understand the meaning of a persons written reply if the sentence is using the wrong spelling of a word, but if I read on most of the time I can "figure it out".
#5
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Pearland, TX
Posts: 406
I taught sophomore English for more years than I sometime care to remember. Guess what? Almost all of my students had difficulty with these words back then. I sometimes think that I am the only one who cares anymore about "proper" grammar and syntax. It is good to see that there are those out in the world who still do care.
#7
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: AR/NM
Posts: 358
Another one...very commonly used (even by educated speakers) but wrong nevertheless...the use of I instead of me. "My parents left everything to my husband and I." It all depends on the word "to". To me...to I...which sounds right? To me, of course.
Now reverse the sentence and you would say "My husband and l received everything"...etc. etc. NOT me.
Last edited by GrammieJan; 06-01-2014 at 05:15 AM.
#8
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 1,141
I can't stand 'these ones'. It's 'this one', or 'these'. Not "these ones". I keep telling my girls, the only time you should ever say these ones together is when holding a pile of one dollar bills, you could say" I got these ones from the bank."
#9
Power Poster
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 16,423
What is so sad, the majority of the college graduates do not know grammar rules. I discovered this in the new hires when I was still working. They were letting spell/grammar checks do all the corrections.
#10
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Western NY
Posts: 841
I was in on an interview for a job when the candidate used a word in the wrong context. She did not get the job because of that mistake. She was young and used the word the way she would with her friends. College grad too.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
auntpiggylpn
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
30
08-05-2012 09:43 PM
mpeters1200
Pictures
9
03-06-2010 06:13 AM