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Grammar nazis

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How do you do it? You actually retained all that grammar you may have learned in high school and college, majored in English, and/or currently teach a subject heavy on writing?

Or do you just go home and do sentence diagrams for fun? 😛
 
No, we just get annoyed by adults that can't spell or use proper grammar/punctuation correctly. For instance, when people use they're/their/and there in the wrong way it really annoys me.
 
Mostly high school English. It was pounded into our head. But this high school was a "traditional" program that focused on reading, writing and arithmetic.
 
I just think 'dangling participle' is a funny phrase, and my 7th grade English teacher was quite enthusiastic when acting out the result of writing "Flying around the room, I finally caught the parakeet." "Dripping with gravy, the waiter brought the mashed potatoes to the table," is also a favorite.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Mostly high school English. It was pounded into our headS. But this high school was a "traditional" program that focused on reading, writing and arithmetic.
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Not hard enough.
 
Anybody else in here take too much Latin in high school? That's when I got the grammar nazi bug. I still get calls from family members asking the proper way to phrase things.
 
Originally posted by: hebrewbacon
Anybody else in here take too much Latin in high school? That's when I got the grammar nazi bug. I still get calls from family members asking the proper way to phrase things.
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most people on this forum arnt that old
 
Originally posted by: hebrewbacon
Anybody else in here take too much Latin in high school? That's when I got the grammar nazi bug. I still get calls from family members asking the proper way to phrase things.
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I had probably 5 years of Latin from 6-10 grade. It really did help with grammar. It was a required subject.
 
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: hebrewbacon
Anybody else in here take too much Latin in high school? That's when I got the grammar nazi bug. I still get calls from family members asking the proper way to phrase things.
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most people on this forum arnt that old
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If I had decided to take Latin in high school instead of French, I could be 16 and still have the Latin grammar bug. Isn't the average age of this forum like 22?
 
Originally posted by: LS21
Originally posted by: Jeff7
The ones who know what a subjective complement, noun phrase, etc is


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this one just kills me inside
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Why? "That" is perfectly appropriate when referring to anonymous groups of people. In this case, "ones that know..." is fine.
 
Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: LS21
Originally posted by: Jeff7
The ones who know what a subjective complement, noun phrase, etc is


😛
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this one just kills me inside
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Why? "That" is perfectly appropriate when referring to anonymous groups of people. In this case, "ones that know..." is fine.
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yup.

and i had to take a crapton of engrish/ composition/ writing classes in both HS and college. doesnt help that i was raised by a mom that majored in english.
 
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