Pet Grammatical Hates - Page 2

Wacky · 2007-12-01, 19:02

Please! Avoid redundant repetition.

xilman · 2007-12-01, 20:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wacky

Please! Avoid redundant repetition.

And never begin a sentence with a conjunction.

At about this point in the narrative, it is traditional to introduce Safire's rules:
http://www.writecontent.com/Editor_s...r_grammar.html

Paul

Fusion_power · 2007-12-02, 14:26

No way on earth will I touch this thread.

DarJones

Patrick123 · 2007-12-03, 07:12

Its sad when it's apostrophe is placed incorrectly.

ewmayer · 2007-12-03, 16:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fusion_power

No way on earth will I touch this thread.

DarJones

For all intensive purposes, that is a counterdiction in terms - what kind of confucian our you trying to pedal here, my fiend?

rogue · 2007-12-03, 16:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by ewmayer

For all intensive purposes, that is a counterdiction in terms - what kind of confucian our you trying to pedal here, my fiend?

There ain't nothing I can do about it.

S485122 · 2007-12-03, 19:39

I do not known if it can be qualified as a grammatical error but using "then" instead of "than" in comparisons always makes me loose time in reading :
- is something else meant ?
- did I misunderstand something ?

Jacob

rogue · 2007-12-03, 20:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by S485122

- is something else meant ?
- did I misunderstand something ?

You are aksing interesting questions.

Look what you done made me do. That belonged in this thread.

ewmayer · 2007-12-03, 22:02

Just ran into this all-too-common faux pas in reading a news story about a medical-device lawsuit's hearing before the US Supreme Court:

Quote:

The Riegel v. Medtronic case has "big implications for the medical device industry," said Boston University law professor Frances Miller. "If they are in fact exempt from liability here, irregardless of anything, they're going to save [the cost of] having to defend these cases."

retina · 2007-12-06, 10:42

affect, effect. Different words, different meanings, they can't be freely interchanged without changing the meaning of the sentence.

Like bsquared said: Is that a grammer issue? I don't care, it still drives me nuts.

ewmayer · 2007-12-06, 16:32

Whoops, I of course meant "foe paws" - as in a 4-limbed animal - in my post above.

My humblest apollo gees...

2007-12-03, 07:12	#15
Patrick123 Jan 2006 JHB, South Africa 157 Posts	Its sad when it's apostrophe is placed incorrectly. Last fiddled with by Patrick123 on 2007-12-03 at 07:13

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