As someone else said, "That is something up with which I will not put. When the preposition is part of the verb, there's nothing wrong with it.prepositions at the end of a sentence
- Lie down.
- 'Fess up.
- Look around.
- Come in.
As someone else said, "That is something up with which I will not put. When the preposition is part of the verb, there's nothing wrong with it.prepositions at the end of a sentence
Sad but true.Grammar, like language, has morphed over time.
Phrases like "where's my coat at?" and "you wanna come with?" are Chicagoland dialect and it drove some of the out of towners at my college crazy. But it sounds perfectly valid to me.prepositions at the end of a sentence
I'm a big fan of reading Reviews on products that I'm interested in purchasing. Plus writing reviews on products that I have purchased. Leaving a "OK" or a "Thumbs Up" is insufficient as I like providing full details as to my opinion on why I liked the product.My peeves were already covered here.
But I'll add that I am very annoyed by the "shortcuts" (or whatever they want to call it) in gmail: when replying, they offer you boxes to click or tap on so you don't have to actually reply. Things like "Sounds great!' "OK" or "I'll be there".
I suppose it's useful for work or if you get dozens of emails a day or something but I'd be offended if anyone ever replied to me that way instead of thinking up an actual response.
The "at" is everywhere and is very annoying, but I think "come with" is truly Chicago. I've never heard it a where else. It's not really wrong, either, because who or what are understood.Phrases like "where's my coat at?" and "you wanna come with?" are Chicagoland dialect and it drove some of the out of towners at my college crazy. But it sounds perfectly valid to me.
The U for you feels like nails on a chalkboard. And mixing up your/you're, too, because if you can sub in you are, it's you're, which is fairly easy to remember.
A fellow educator would use "myself" as the subject. He put it in a cross-curriculum project proposal he and I were working on together. I asked him to change it. He refused. I told him to change it. He refused. It became a bit heated. (We did not like each other at all. We had been assigned together.) He turned it in that way and was called out in front of fellow faculty members.Subjunctive case is another problem for a lot of people.
I once worked for an admin who started sentences with "Myself and John Doe will be at a meeting today."
"Myself, I prefer cats" is okay in informal speech.
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Depends on the platform you are using. For example, when I'm chatting with other players on my Xbox, you have to move your analog stick over to the letter and press to accept that letter. Adding additional letters is time consuming and a lot more work. Also if you make a mistake then you have to find the back key and accept that.The U for you feels like nails on a chalkboard
One of my kids is doing 2 grammar programs and the other wants to do the 2nd one too so don’t blame me!It seems that ever since they've eliminated certain subjects in school
Don’t blame me for that one either. Both my kids have learned. DS’s cursive is better than his manuscript writing by far! I’m not sure if it’s because he is left handed or related to some challenges hes had. He hand wrote an entire letter this week and that’s a big deal for him!Sad but true.
Another subject no longer taught in school is cursive. I used to love teaching the third grade students cursive. Since I have done calligraphy for many years I have a special fondness for it.
There's an easy way to remember this. Your reasoning is a little confusing because it's so similar. Just think : people lie down, but hens lay eggs.Lay and lie are hard ones for me.
I know that 'lie' means to be in a flat position while 'lay' means to place something down flat. But I sometimes get those confused and use the wrong one.
I once had a semi-boss who insisted on "you and I" for everything. Her rule must have been that when more than one person is included, you always had to use "I." Of course, she would have never said, "Tom invited I to dinner."When people use "you and I" thinking that is universally the correct way to use it but in the instance they used it in is incorrect and should be "you and me."
This touches the difference between British and American punctuation styles. In North American English, periods always go inside a quote, but in Britain, the periods always go outside the quotation mark. Early American printers thought there was too much space between a quote mark and a period, so they put the quotation mark outside. Wikipedia is written in British punctuation, and I hate it.This is not a grammar usage pet peeve but a grammar pet peeve. I hate that the quote has to go outside of a period but inside of a question mark if the quoted part is inside a question.
I took a course in copyediting at the University of Chicago Publishing Program and did some work-related copyediting, so errors jump off the page to me. But I can take it too seriously sometimes. I rarely correct anyone online; there's too many to correct, and I don't have the time. Agree with you about the auto-correct. For one thing, it wants to make all plurals into possessives (possessive's, possessives').I used to be annoyed a lot more with errors online but I’ve gotten used to it. I did proofreading and editing at a part time job in college too. I think I’ve just seen how annoying it is to get things just right on my phone. And then theres the dreaded auto-correct.