Your and You're ... Please Get it Right?
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Originally Posted By: ARCOgraphite
Ive been wondering about the following for years:
When our clerk answers the phone and the caller asks for her, she replies, "this is She?".
I this correct or is it just bad sentence construction?
It's correct. It was once considered preferred. It's less common now.
Ive been wondering about the following for years:
When our clerk answers the phone and the caller asks for her, she replies, "this is She?".
I this correct or is it just bad sentence construction?
It's correct. It was once considered preferred. It's less common now.
Originally Posted By: Kuato
Originally Posted By: Bottom_Feeder
Your/you're bothers me for sure, but not nearly as much as people using random apostrophes to show plural nouns, especially in the same sentence!
"So do you like the Jets or the Gaint's? The Ravens or the Redskin's?"
Makes me want to choke somebody.
THAT drives me insane. At least have some durn consistency.
A colleague of mine has a theory that people make 's plurals more often for words with fewer syllables.
Originally Posted By: Bottom_Feeder
Your/you're bothers me for sure, but not nearly as much as people using random apostrophes to show plural nouns, especially in the same sentence!
"So do you like the Jets or the Gaint's? The Ravens or the Redskin's?"
Makes me want to choke somebody.
THAT drives me insane. At least have some durn consistency.
A colleague of mine has a theory that people make 's plurals more often for words with fewer syllables.
Originally Posted By: ET16
Originally Posted By: Kuato
Originally Posted By: Bottom_Feeder
Your/you're bothers me for sure, but not nearly as much as people using random apostrophes to show plural nouns, especially in the same sentence!
"So do you like the Jets or the Gaint's? The Ravens or the Redskin's?"
Makes me want to choke somebody.
THAT drives me insane. At least have some durn consistency.
A colleague of mine has a theory that people make 's plurals more often for words with fewer syllables.
As I think about it, this may be right, as it has a connection to the correct usage of 's plurals: when you pluralize acronyms and the like, so as to avoid ambiguity, so "cd's" and not "cds."
Originally Posted By: Kuato
Originally Posted By: Bottom_Feeder
Your/you're bothers me for sure, but not nearly as much as people using random apostrophes to show plural nouns, especially in the same sentence!
"So do you like the Jets or the Gaint's? The Ravens or the Redskin's?"
Makes me want to choke somebody.
THAT drives me insane. At least have some durn consistency.
A colleague of mine has a theory that people make 's plurals more often for words with fewer syllables.
As I think about it, this may be right, as it has a connection to the correct usage of 's plurals: when you pluralize acronyms and the like, so as to avoid ambiguity, so "cd's" and not "cds."
"this is she" - correcto!
http://writingexplained.org/how-to-answer-the-phone-this-is-she-or-this-is-her
http://writingexplained.org/how-to-answer-the-phone-this-is-she-or-this-is-her
We need to bring back the Draft, and Polio.
Then you guys would have something significant to get riled up/worry about.
Then you guys would have something significant to get riled up/worry about.
Originally Posted By: ET16
Far worse is the proliferation of 's mayhem. Mostly it's with plurals ("dish'es," etc.), but I've even seen things like "hi's."
Their hi's dish'es.
People struggle with words that end in a vowel. They love the apostrophe.
Far worse is the proliferation of 's mayhem. Mostly it's with plurals ("dish'es," etc.), but I've even seen things like "hi's."
Their hi's dish'es.
People struggle with words that end in a vowel. They love the apostrophe.
Acronyms are abbreviations pronounced as words, eg. "posh"= port outbound starboard home.
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Originally Posted By: Astro14
Good grammar is a courtesy to the reader...
It also reflects on the intelligence of the author.
Good grammar is a courtesy to the reader...
It also reflects on the intelligence of the author.
Your right.
Originally Posted By: oliveoil
Your right.
So, your left?
Your right.
So, your left?
Originally Posted By: ARCOgraphite
It's getting frikin' cold, yous two get in the Caa, I'm gonna go back and grab my Parker.
Bostin! gotta love it, baby!
Nahh, it's wicked cold!
It's getting frikin' cold, yous two get in the Caa, I'm gonna go back and grab my Parker.
Bostin! gotta love it, baby!
Nahh, it's wicked cold!
Originally Posted By: ammolab
We need to bring back the Draft, and Polio.
Then you guys would have something significant to get riled up/worry about.
Polio no, the draft yes. Well not the draft really, just a couple of years mandatory service for every able bodied young man and woman.
We need to bring back the Draft, and Polio.
Then you guys would have something significant to get riled up/worry about.
Polio no, the draft yes. Well not the draft really, just a couple of years mandatory service for every able bodied young man and woman.
Originally Posted By: redbone3
Misuse of "loose" and "lose" is the one the bugs me.
In prison, born too loose can have a different meaning than born to lose. Make sure the guy doing your tattoo uses proper grammar.
Misuse of "loose" and "lose" is the one the bugs me.
In prison, born too loose can have a different meaning than born to lose. Make sure the guy doing your tattoo uses proper grammar.
Originally Posted By: Bud
Originally Posted By: ammolab
We need to bring back the Draft, and Polio.
Then you guys would have something significant to get riled up/worry about.
Polio no, the draft yes. Well not the draft really, just a couple of years mandatory service for every able bodied young man and woman.
Only if/when the gov't stops all these unnecessary wars.
Originally Posted By: ammolab
We need to bring back the Draft, and Polio.
Then you guys would have something significant to get riled up/worry about.
Polio no, the draft yes. Well not the draft really, just a couple of years mandatory service for every able bodied young man and woman.
Only if/when the gov't stops all these unnecessary wars.
Originally Posted By: vintageant
"this is she" - correcto!
http://writingexplained.org/how-to-answer-the-phone-this-is-she-or-this-is-her
You lost me on that explanation. Getting too old to figure all this out.
"this is she" - correcto!
http://writingexplained.org/how-to-answer-the-phone-this-is-she-or-this-is-her
You lost me on that explanation. Getting too old to figure all this out.
Originally Posted By: Silverado12
Originally Posted By: redbone3
Misuse of "loose" and "lose" is the one the bugs me.
In prison, born too loose can have a different meaning than born to lose. Make sure the guy doing your tattoo uses proper grammar.
Tattoo put on as "No Regerts" ... sorry, I was eating a Milky Way.
Originally Posted By: redbone3
Misuse of "loose" and "lose" is the one the bugs me.
In prison, born too loose can have a different meaning than born to lose. Make sure the guy doing your tattoo uses proper grammar.
Tattoo put on as "No Regerts" ... sorry, I was eating a Milky Way.
Originally Posted By: vintageant
Is this a verbosity or viscosity thread?
It's a lot of very verbose individuals expressing their own take on viscosity.
Is this a verbosity or viscosity thread?
It's a lot of very verbose individuals expressing their own take on viscosity.
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