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Jasper
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Past vs. past perfect
- September 17, 2013, 9:39pm
@Warsaw Will
I don't quite understand your second post. You say, "...that didn't happen *after* the main event..." Do you mean before there or could you elaborate?
You’ve got another think/thing coming
- August 29, 2013, 7:26pm
* viola should voila.
You’ve got another think/thing coming
- August 29, 2013, 7:24pm
' "...But if [you think] you [can] keep coming in late to work, you've got another [think] coming." '
Some insertions and viola. You have the 'think' version. Moreover, the idiom isn't based off grammar; a number aren't.
Adverbs better avoided?
- August 21, 2013, 3:55pm
@Warsaw Will
Agreed. Passives are perfectly fine.
@Will I Am
Don't believe nonsense like "adverbs" and "adjectives" (I insert this because I have heard adjectives treated similarly) are bad. By whose standards are adverbs bad? Why would a word class (part of speech) exist if we are going to eschew like a plague?
How did “trans-” become “x-”?
- August 20, 2013, 7:35pm
@Spence
The Xmas isn't actually "exing" out Christ, but in reality stands for the Greek letter chi, the starting letter, in Greek, of "Christ". Here is the source for that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_English_usage_misconceptions#Semantics
You'll have to scroll down a little.
why does english have capital letters?
- July 26, 2013, 5:09pm
*"the" should be "than"
why does english have capital letters?
- July 26, 2013, 5:08pm
@aragond
You are either unfathomably stupid or you are just trolling. The latter is truer. But I'll indulge you.
Let's begin with your errors:
1. Commas are used more the connecting clauses.
2. Commas are not to connect two independent clauses, unless, of course, there is a coordinating conjunctions.
3. "Off a horse" is a prepositional phrase, not a clause.
4. English does clear define the subject and object.
5. English, I believe, does have a rigid syntactic order.
On Tomorrow
- July 25, 2013, 11:08pm
*Scratch out the second 'not'.
On Tomorrow
- July 25, 2013, 6:44pm
I don't think the phrase is not even logical. Tomorrow, I believe, is a blend of the preposition 'to' with morrow, which means the following day. Other phrases that have merged are hereto, herewith, nevertheless, nonetheless, etc. So technically the phrase on tomorrow is actually on to morrow.
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Chary | July 1, 2013 |
Past vs. past perfect | September 13, 2013 |
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“a letter that had requested” vs. “a letter that requested” | November 25, 2013 |
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A New Correlative Conjunction? | February 5, 2014 |
Putative (-ly) vs. Supposed (-ly) vs. Ostensible (-y) | June 25, 2014 |
Who/whom, copular verbs, and the infinitive | July 16, 2014 |
“The plants were withered” Adjective or passive?
Both A and B practically mean the same thing. C reads odd to me though.