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20 common grammar mistakes
Topic Started: Feb 11 2012, 02:35 AM (800 Views)
ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Aqua Letifer
Feb 11 2012, 06:33 AM


And then there's the one I've already mentioned here many times:
"Punctuation is not a frivolous thing!
'Let's eat out, Grandma!' "
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The dogma lives loudly within me.
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HOLY CARP!!!
jon-nyc
Feb 11 2012, 11:09 AM
I'd be curious what the entire OED entry is - IT?
I don't think he can help you. They cut off my OED access a year after I finished the MBA. IT suggested I go for a doctorate. Maybe a subscription would be cheaper.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Klaus
Feb 11 2012, 07:49 AM
George K
Feb 11 2012, 06:22 AM
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“Since” refers to time. “Because” refers to causation. e.g., Since I quit drinking I’ve married and had two children. e.g., Because I quit drinking I no longer wake up in my own vomit.


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So you needed help improving your f*cking style? TMI, dude.
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Cheers
musicasacra
Feb 11 2012, 03:23 PM
jon-nyc
Feb 11 2012, 11:09 AM
I'd be curious what the entire OED entry is - IT?
I don't think he can help you. They cut off my OED access a year after I finished the MBA. IT suggested I go for a doctorate. Maybe a subscription would be cheaper.
$295 a year, individual. As I looked I wondered if IT really sprung for that or if he had access through some larger institution.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
I am too penuriously parsimonious.
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The 89th Key
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I usually hear the word "peruse" used in the wrong context. A lot of people that use it think it means "to read over quickly" as in "Let me peruse the magazine while I'm waiting."

In fact, it means "to read thoroughly".
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Horace
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The 89th Key
Feb 12 2012, 08:40 AM
I usually hear the word "peruse" used in the wrong context. A lot of people that use it think it means "to read over quickly" as in "Let me peruse the magazine while I'm waiting."

In fact, it means "to read thoroughly".
Interesting! I've apparently used that one wrong my whole life.
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The 89th Key
Feb 12 2012, 08:40 AM
I usually hear the word "peruse" used in the wrong context. A lot of people that use it think it means "to read over quickly" as in "Let me peruse the magazine while I'm waiting."

In fact, it means "to read thoroughly".
You can also peruse photographs and paintings and yeah, it does indeed mean to examine thoroughly.

Then again I don't think too many people know the difference between skimming through something and reading it thoroughly so maybe the mistake is just as well.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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blondie
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"if" and "was" .
Drives me nuts.
It's "if" and "were"
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Klaus
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ivorythumper
Feb 11 2012, 03:24 PM
So you needed help improving your f*cking style? TMI, dude.
Actually you gave a nice example that the English language can be quite ambigious even without punctuation. Lojban FTW!
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Tav D
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I am struck by how often you will see someone use "loose" in place of "lose". Very common.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Klaus
Feb 13 2012, 02:15 AM
ivorythumper
Feb 11 2012, 03:24 PM
So you needed help improving your f*cking style? TMI, dude.
Actually you gave a nice example that the English language can be quite ambigious even without punctuation. Lojban FTW!
If Lobjan doesn't facilitate double entendres and puns it is sadly limited as a language for human communication. :lol2:
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