Errors in "English 101" lesson..

[OverVolt]

Being english owned is completely meaningless, proper english is rarely used over the internet.

anyway, good job?

 

[Drakkon]

LoL u caught all the things he wanted you to catch and u think your awesome LMAO

somebody got owned by this thread and it aint skoorb (left in bad bad grammer intentionalLY left in for you're benefit)

 

[yllus]

Damn, you really put you're foot in you're mouth this time. Did you or did you not process the meaning of point two on that page?

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Spider! :evil:

 

[Darilus]

Originally posted by: Evadman
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Penny Arcade rocks. :thumbsup:

 

[Steve]

Spider

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: sparkyclarky
"You're" is the contraction of "you are".

This is grammatically incorrect, as the period goes inside of the quotation marks. However, this honestly does not matter seeing as how e-grammar is not entirely necessary in an informal context such as the forums.

I was always taught that the period goes inside the quotation marks _if and only if_ the quotation marks are denoting words quoted from another source and that when the quotation marks are used to set off a word or phrase that is not being directly quoted from another source (e.g. in the case of using quotation marks to set off a special term) the period belongs outside of the final quotation mark.

Both of the following examples are correct as I have been taught:

Tom said, "You're a nice person."

The most common letter in English is the letter "e".

ZV

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: sparkyclarky
"You're" is the contraction of "you are".

This is grammatically incorrect, as the period goes inside of the quotation marks. However, this honestly does not matter seeing as how e-grammar is not entirely necessary in an informal context such as the forums.

I was always taught that the period goes inside the quotation marks _if and only if_ the quotation marks are denoting words quoted from another source and that when the quotation marks are used to set off a word or phrase that is not being directly quoted from another source (e.g. in the case of using quotation marks to set off a special term) the period belongs outside of the final quotation mark.

Both of the following examples are correct as I have been taught:

Tom said, "You're a nice person."

The most common letter in English is the letter "e".

ZV

It's quite possible that you are correct, so I'll defer the matter to those with more grammatical expertise than me.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: sparkyclarky
It's quite possible that you are correct, so I'll defer the matter to those with more grammatical expertise than me.

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[cmdrmoocow]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: wobbuffet

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
4. spider

5. spider

6. Profit!

I cackled out load reading #6.

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

I hate the both of you.


There's no point at ALL in being so anal about this stuff.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Syringer
From.. http://www.skoorbs.com/englishlesson.html

1. The second line of this page reads.. "If your tired of people like me sneering at people like you..." tsk tsk.

Interestingly enough, tip #2 reads..

2. "You're" is the contraction of "you are". You're a buffoon if you continue to use "your" when you mean "you are". If you didn't catch my misuse of "your" above, then you should take this lesson to heart. First though, give yourself a deserved slap.

2. Tip #5 then reads: "I'm real sorry if you take this personal" is also quite incorrect. "Take" is a verb, however "personal" is an adjective..what he was supposed to use is "personally", which is the adverbial form of personal. Though I'm not sure if this was intentional given the last sentence of this tip..but it's certainly too subtle a thing to intentionalLY put in..so -10 points.

3. "Advanced tips (these shouldn't be advanced, but apparently they are these days) tips:"

Redudancy is normally bad enough, and when it creates an ungrammatical sentence is worse..but when used in conjunction in a pretentious post is just inexcusable.

/didn't proofread this post
//e-penis grows a half inch

WTF is "redudancy"?

Nobody's going to use this gem?