Free grammar lessons!

[i_am_phenomenon]

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it's i saw not i seen =]
i SAW you the other day
i have SEEN that movie before
kthnx

[clarinet89]

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It bothers me when peope say melk instead of milk and el-lin-oise instead of ill-in-oy for Illinois. The 's' is silent people. It happens a lot too, being from the Midwest and all.

[TheRapingDragon]

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It bothers me when peope say melk instead of milk and el-lin-oise instead of ill-in-oy for Illinois. The 's' is silent people. It happens a lot too, being from the Midwest and all.

Since when does pronunciation of words have anything to do with grammar?

[Patashu]

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free grammer lessons;

'your' is a contraction for 'you are'
'you're' indicates possession, as in 'you're car is red'

[Ground_Breaker]

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I don't know if this was brought up already, but why is the plural form of an object used when talking about zero of that object?

I wore one black shoe today.
I threw two shoes out the window.
There are zero shoes left in the display.

Plural typically means more than one of something, so why is none of something considered plural?

[devonin]

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Your last statement can presuppose a question such as "Are there any shoes in the display?" "No, there are no shoes in the display"

If someone had said "Is there a banana in the fridge?" You'd respond "There is no banana in the fridge"

You're referring to an absence or a zero number, but using the singular form.

However when you specifically number something 'zero' it isn't so much that it "is plural" as "is not singular" Since it is not singular, you don't use the singular, which leaves you the plural.

[Ground_Breaker]

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However when you specifically number something 'zero' it isn't so much that it "is plural" as "is not singular" Since it is not singular, you don't use the singular, which leaves you the plural.

That makes more sense than any other reason I've been given before, but unless my definition of plural is off, wouldn't it also technically be not plural as well as not singular?

[danny53x]

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Why is it "He is risen"
and not "He has risen"
or did he do it himself?
Or did someone raise him?

I get mixed up with rise and raise.

[Squeek]

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Religion breaks all rules of grammar.

Just ignore them.

[itachi1]

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So Can U Teach Me Japanese.....

[Squeek]

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I think you should learn English before attempting another language.

[clarinet89]

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[TheMagicalLeprechaun]

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'DO NOT PUT TV's, couch's, or appliance's here'

-Written on the back of a stop sign near a dumpster in town...
What's worse, Google Chrome thinks of that as proper grammar.

[TheRapingDragon]

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At least they try. The amount of people who fear their English teacher and try to appease them by constantly inserting "'s" at the end of all plural words. It's more common than actually leaving the "'s" out.

[Squeek]

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At least they try. The amount of people who fear their English teacher and try to appease them by constantly inserting "'s" at the end of all plural words. It's more common than actually leaving the "'s" out.

number*

If it's something you can count, it's not 'amount'.