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- brains
(Not that it's happening so much tonight, but for future reference, if someone makes this mistake, please direct them to this thread.)
Use there when referring to a place, whether concrete ("over there by the building") or more abstract ("it must be difficult to live there").
* There is an antique store on Camden Avenue.
* The calculus books are over there on the floor.# Use their to indicate possession. It is a possessive adjective and indicates that a particular noun belongs to them.
* My friends have lost their tickets.
* Their things were strewn about the office haphazardly.# Remember that they're is a contraction of the words they and are. It can never be used as a modifier, only as a subject (who or what does the action) and verb (the action itself).
* Hurry up! They're closing the mall at 6 tonight!
* I'm glad that they're so nice to new students here.
- PonyBoy0
They're are times in my life when their are folks who think there all that and have to correct me to suit THEIR snootiness.
- MrOneHundred0
Grammatical errors annoy the balls off of me.
- PonyBoy0
this are our demands?
- airey0
on a forum, who give a fucj...
- JG_LB0
i can has grammar nazis?
- Invalid0
They're over there with their friends...
- _salisae_0
it's very simple. i learned it in second grade.
- _salisae_0
though, being a hyper and dyslexic child i remember looking a word up in the dictionary in that same 2nd grade class ... say the word is i don't know .. dyslexia
i flipped to the d section of the dictionary then flipped to the y section then the s and then all the sudden i was like WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING?
i was so embarrassed and no one was even paying attention to my circumstance.
- dog_opus0
Good God almighty, thank you, brains. Excepting non-native speakers and those with a learning disability, what the heck is up with the rest of you English-raping goofballs? It's laziness and, perhaps more importantly, an apathetic educational system that has fostered this colossal ignorance. We work in a communication-based profession, and it seems like a bunch of us don't even have mastery of our own language's basic grammar.
Here are some of my favorite semi-literate gems:
your (instead of you're)
a whole 'nother
beg (instead of raise) the question (begging the question is a logical fallacy)
could (instead of couldn't) care less
would/could/should/might/etc. of (instead of have)
than/then
loose (instead of lose)Grammatical nihilism.
Vernacular and slang is one thing, but being utterly unaware of the fundamentals of ones language is quite another.
- Oh, and pluralizing nouns with "'s" – another beauty.dog_opus
- http://www.apostroph…acescence
- Witt0
Pardon me if I missed any long before. I try buckets.
- Jaline0
brains, you should've added this to your wonderful profile over in the QBN Dating thread.
- dskz0
u got it.