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09-22-2011, 06:15 PM | #51 (permalink) | |
Quiet Man in the Corner
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Let me try and help you out there friend! I'm no English major, but this is what I think you meant to say: I'm almost certain I made errors in my previous post, so I'm just going to say some random stuff. Hey, how's it going? I'm addicted to porn. I tend not to watch it very often, but when the time comes, I throw a few videos on. I can't help but feel the need to see what's new on Redtube. (Indecipherable), I like video games too! I seem to think that one day I will create one. Maybe that's why I produce music? I'm just so creative! If I could create the world, I would paint it black—like the 1966 Rolling Stones song with the same title. I paint everything black. That's really cool isn't it? Like everything (?) > all black. |
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10-01-2011, 07:41 PM | #52 (permalink) | |||
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Sometimes, though, I think members might want to know about grammar errors, because when I make a writing error and genuinely don't know that I erred, then I like to learn about the rule so that I will know it and why it exists. I don't want to be impolite, though, or make members feel chastised, and so I hold my fingers (as opposed to tongue). Except for now! One common error I see on MusicBanter is when people write about the "amount" of objects rather than the "number" of objects, such as in this thread topic: "The Official 'I've Just Reached a Significant Amount of Posts' Thread!" I learned that "amount" should be used to refer to objects that are measured by weight, while "number" should be used to refer to objects that can be counted. Another example of a post in which I think "number" should have been used instead of "amount" is this one: Quote:
My biggest grammar pet peeve is when the subject and a pronoun don't match, such as if someone writes, "When a person goes to school, they should wear clothes." A person is not a "they." A person is a "she" or a "he." The sentence could easily be corrected by writing, "When people go to school, they should wear clothes." Ahh! So much better!
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10-02-2011, 12:03 AM | #53 (permalink) | |
Nae wains, Great Danes.
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My grammar is absolutely appalling but my spelling's alright. I think.
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10-02-2011, 12:13 PM | #55 (permalink) | |
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