Bruce.
Bruce.
Bill
> "Thieving"
> "Pinching"
> "Knocking-off"
> Some alternatives for you, Goy old mate. :)
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"
http://www.theuspits.com
"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--
Bye,
Leo
> > > > Tell you what REALLY gets up my nose - adding an s after an apostrophe ....
> > > > Jesus's, Simmonds's ..... <AAAARGH!> drives me nuts.
> > > How about websight ?
> > > I like this thread :-)
> > :-) Goy your (not you're!) spelling is better than a lot who have English as their FIRST language
> Yeah, but apparently I can't spell steal......
> > > > Tell you what REALLY gets up my nose - adding an s after an apostrophe
> > > ....
> > > > Jesus's, Simmonds's ..... <AAAARGH!> drives me nuts.
> > This one depends on the context.
> > Example:
> > John is coming to see me is correct as "John's coming to see me." But
> "John's car" would actually mean John is car, which is
> > wrong of course
> Eh? "John's car is broken."
> I have never seen anyone write "John's car", wanting to mean "John is car".
> No one makes that mistake.
> You'll see stuff like "The team's are coming onto the field" or "The teams
> mascot did a flip". But you'll never see "John's car", with the writer
> intending "John is car". No one thinks "John is car" is a sentence. The
> writer knows instinctively that a descriptive word goes in that "predicate
> adjective" slot.
> Alanb
> > > How about "noone" instead of "no one"?
> > <blush>
> lol
<ducking>
Mike
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> > > > > Tell you what REALLY gets up my nose - adding an s after an
apostrophe
> > > > ....
> > > > > Jesus's, Simmonds's ..... <AAAARGH!> drives me nuts.
> > > This one depends on the context.
> > > Example:
> > > John is coming to see me is correct as "John's coming to see me." But
> > "John's car" would actually mean John is car, which is
> > > wrong of course
> > Eh? "John's car is broken."
> > I have never seen anyone write "John's car", wanting to mean "John is
car".
> > No one makes that mistake.
> > You'll see stuff like "The team's are coming onto the field" or "The
teams
> > mascot did a flip". But you'll never see "John's car", with the writer
> > intending "John is car". No one thinks "John is car" is a sentence.
The
> > writer knows instinctively that a descriptive word goes in that
"predicate
> > adjective" slot.
> > Alanb
> as you say, they will realise John is car is wrong. Yet people will write
Excuse me? Eh? You have just lost me with your logic there Sue.
Dags
(Ex-English Teacher) :-)
I know, I should of asked....
;)
-Tim
> > The most common spelling error when i was at school....it still bugs me
> now
> > when i see it wrong lol
> > AD
"the team is are coming onto the field"
Yes, but students don't take it that way. They just don't understand the
possessive and as such tend to over-possess. It actually comes down to an
image thing: you have to picture the noun actually handling what it is
possessing. Once you can do this imaging, possessives are no longer a
problem.
Alanb
> > "Thieving"
> > "Pinching"
> > "Knocking-off"
> > Some alternatives for you, Goy old mate. :)
> Thx :-)
> Beers and cheers
> (uncle) Goy
> "goyl at nettx dot no"
> http://www.theuspits.com
> "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
> --Groucho Marx--
Alanb
> >> Now no one knows the diff between "loose" and "lose". This is easily
the
> >> most common mistake I see.
> >> > The most common spelling error when i was at school....it still bugs
me
> >> now
> >> > when i see it wrong lol
> >> > AD
> >I beg to differ. The most common error is not "loose"/"lose" its
> >"its"/"it's". ;o)
> No _your_ wrong! :-)
> ["You're" and "your" certainly qualify for this enumeration of
> spelling transgressions]
Bruce.