If you're troubled by grammar, here's a helping hand
 

I saw this on another site and found it amusingly helpful.

[derail]The OP reminded me of a poster I wish I had bought. It was a diagrammed sentence by the greatest French novelist, Marcel Proust. Proust tended toward verrrry long sentences.

So then I wondered, what exactly was the longest Proust sentence? Voilà.[/derail]

Back on track, I love grammar.

Sometimes, I think I want to read Proust - this is not one of them

Now, if I could only read fast enough to get them, they may help.

I was using ect. for years until I found out it was etc. :blush:

There is a new spelling curriculum at the school my children attend that empasizes words that are typically misused. Such as there, their, and they're; your and you're; its and it's; etc, etc, etc. It was only adopted last year, but my 3rd grade son now almost always uses them correctly. It it less a weekly spelling list as it is a writing curriculum that expands the common always-spell-correctly words as their writing becomes more complex. I rather like it.

Its all in the way you reed into it. Their are alot of grammer things too know.
Two many if you ask me. Lets all go to the liberry!
:D

I'm sorry GC, but that's "if you ax me". Try and be righter next time.

I apollogize.

My mother's pet peeve is compose/comprise. I get to hear about that at least once a week.

Please be more pacific.

If anyone needs grammar help, I are an English Major

Sew, watt is you're wurst grammer pet peeve? Four me, its "Where you at?" followed by "That car is mines."

Magellan circumcized the world with a giant clipper. That's one I remember from a friend who teaches Freshman English. It sounds too good to be true, that sentence.

Here's one that a student handed in to me. It was a beginning French class. At the time, it was teaching fashion to have even beginning students keep diaries in the target language. The students are given basic diary vocab, such as starting each entry Cher journal (Dear Diary).

So I get this notebook where every entry begins Chère laitière. It means Dear Dairymaid. Hmmm. :confused:

Ten minutes of blinking at that, I finally figured it out: if you get yourself a French/English dictionary and you spell diary as dairy ... voilà.

Your and You're! It's showing up on billboards incorrectly! AUGHGHGH!!! :mad:

We saw one at a furniture store the other day: All recliners are not created equal.

I would imagine in your case you had better have a great affinity for grammar, let something go into print incorrectly. (My personal peeve with printed matter)

And SCA, we have the same type of spelling lists here too. It saves me from having to correct the Your, and you're, which frankly I love.
My son also has a list he has to keep in his notebook of commonly misused, or spelled words.

"She's no albino. She was born right here in this country."
~ His Girl Friday

Grammar iz important 2 me. whnevr I snd msg 2 fRnds I alwys lIk 2 mAk suR dey R EZ 2 comprehend. Accurate grammatical structure iz a key element.




It's true, you really can find anything on the net....

Its/It's. There isn't a publication in the country that doesn't screw that one up.

The "it's/its" debacle routinely finds its way into my work. The worst part of it all is that I know it, and catch it all the time. When I see myself typing it the wrong way, everything goes into slow-motion, like I'm doing some really cool Matrix stunt... except I'm not.

Oh, and add to my list of grievances what IMs, and worse - text messaging - has done for grammar. Suddenly, it's acceptable to write incorrectly outside of those media. I've done it, too... fore go capitalization from time to time, but seriously... in schoolwork.

That's forgo - or possibly forego. It's always one word.


Only in this thread, I promise.

I force myself to think "it is" - which is the only correct usage of "it's". It is silly, but it works.

Even worse - business emails. I am shocked what I see come in on a regular basis.

It appears you also forego the correct usage of forgo (either spelling is correct according to one source, but may not be so with all sources).

I pronounce "street" as "shtreet". It's a Hawai'i pidgin english thing.
:shrug:

"Try and" drives me crazy. "I'm going to try and do my homework tonight." Yeah? You're both going to try it and do it? How nice for you.

I'm so glad we can all conversate about this.

Yeah, "try and" means the opposite. I'll try and make it = I'm not coming.

Much like "it was interesting" means "I hated it."

"I could care less" bugs me. I think it's "I couldn't care less".

"Foilage" instead of "folliage"...

"Birfday" instead of "birthday"...

"I love you" instead of "you ruined my life"

Mean Girls started the whole "I know, right?" thing. Just like Clueless started the whole "As if" thing.
:D

Ooh! I just heard one in our office. One of my co-workers likes saying "acrost" instead of "across".

It's "espresso", not "expresso" damnit!

And on a related subject, the use of "X" as a syllable. e.g. "Xtreme", "Xcelleration"

The "expresso"/"espresso" thing annoyed me when I was working at Borders.

I'm now so terrified of making a grammatical error that I can hardly type.:p

Am I the only one who is amused by the subtle irony of this statement.

this reminds me of the time when I worked in a florist:

A customer came in and asked for "Baby's Breast"

I was ready to disembowel my coworker with a staple remover today, when she wouldn't stop saying "O M G!" to everything.

A photo taken at a farmer's market type thing while in Alaska. It needs a hyphen, where would you put it?

Forget punctuation. The word "fanny" just needs to be bigger.

[bevisandbutthead]Heh heh[/bevisandbutthead] I did enjoy that post way more than was perhaps proper for my age and station.

Not that it's grammar-related. But I learned not to call it a "fanny-pack" whilst vacationing in England.