Free grammar lessons!

[Hwscottsmcgram]

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I hate it when people don't capitalize.

[ruferddude]

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"I" before "E" except after "C"

Then isn't science mispelled? And isn't weird also mispelled?

[mnoed]

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i dnt undrstnd wats te bihg deel mane

lol I'm just kidding, but it's still just a waste of time! You learn this stuff in school dude.

[Squeek]

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Apparently not, seeing the way some users post.

Even if you learn things in school, there's no guarantee that you're truly comprehending the meaning of the rules, or maybe you just didn't get it. When was the last time you took a final exam and got a 100%--indicating that you fully "learned" something from school?

[mnoed]

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That's true

[danny53x]

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Pass Elementary School English with an A.
Then you wouldn't need this.
SRSLY.
Except, there's one thing I have trouble with:

Lay, and lie.

[GuidoHunter]

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Pass Elementary School English with an A.
Then you wouldn't need this.
SRSLY.
Except, there's one thing I have trouble with:

Lay, and lie.

They BOTH change form when going from the present to the past tense, but not necessarily when going from the past to the past perfect.

Present -> Past -> Past Perfect

(to recline) Lie -> Lay -> Lain

(to put down) Lay -> Laid -> Laid

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[devonin]

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"Laying is for bricks and chicks"

[RubiedCross]

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I think I might show this to my old English/Social Studies teacher. She was horrible with punctuation, and called most of correct grammar wrong. Which screwed me up completely. Now a days, I find it hard to figure out whether or not my sentences are correct.

But then again, my school system sucks overall.

Thanks .

[Relambrien]

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Can we get a section on what "versus" means, and how it's not a third-person conjugation of a verb?

I've heard too many "I'll verse you in this game" recently. If no one wants to do it, I will.

[nate mdance]

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. , ' " ; : ) ( - ! A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.These are always so under-used,if you dont spell right the grammer fairy will come and kill you in your sleep.


Cheerz-

Nate

[Relambrien]

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. , ' " ; : ) ( - ! A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.These are always so under-used,if you dont spell right the grammer fairy will come and kill you in your sleep.


Cheerz-

Nate

Congratulations! The grammar fairy will now come kill you in your sleep!

Oh, and I might as well make that block on "versus" now:

A lot of people misuse the word "versus." People will say things like "I want to verse you in this game," which is wrong. "Versus" is derived from the past participle of the Latin word "vertere," which means "to turn."

"Versus" is NOT a verb. People seem to think it's the third-person singular conjugation of the imaginary and incorrect verb, "to verse." Why is this? Take the verb "to box." The third-person singular conjugation of that is "boxes," which sounds similar to "versus" in its ending. This is true for all verbs ending in an "s" or "z" sound (which "to box" does). To conjugate into the third-person singular, most of the time a syllable sounding like the word "is" is added. "Boxes," "crashes," "raises," etc. Thus, people mistakenly believe that "versus" is a third-person conjugation of "to verse," because the second syllable sounds like the word "is," leading people to believe it is a third-person conjugation of a verb. It is not.

"Verse" is a noun, and refers to a part of a song or poem.

"Versus" is not a verb, so stop using it like one. "I wanna verse you in FFR" is grammatically incorrect. "I want to face you in FFR" is grammatically correct.

[RubiedCross]

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. , ' " ; : ) ( - ! A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.These are always so under-used,if you dont spell right the grammer fairy will come and kill you in your sleep.


Cheerz-

Nate

Congrats to just screwing yourself over. Hope to see that happen more often in the near future.

And don't try and copy Synth. That's a one person thing. IMO. Just letting you know, in case someone comes a long and starts flaming you for it. Which (hopefully) nobody will.

[Squeek]

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Congratulations! The grammar fairy will now come kill you in your sleep!

Oh, and I might as well make that block on "versus" now:

I very rarely edit the original post, but I'll pop this in.

[x_Dragun_x]

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ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
i can use proper grammer im just to lazy when im typing to think about grammer and people can read it just fine so to me grammer dosent matter unless it is something like for a job or something >.<