Dear Grammar Idiots
Nov. 20th, 2006 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlYes, I'm talking to you.
"Your" and "you're" are actually very simple to differentiate. Rather than explaining possessives and contractions, as that seems to make people's heads spin, I'll simply state that if you can break the word you're using in any given sentence into "you" and "are", then you should use "you're." If that's not what you mean, then go with "your."
SIMPLE.
Also please note that the past tense of drag is not drug. Drug is either a pharmaceutical or, as a verb, means to give someone a pharmaceutical. Dragged is the word you want. Really.
Past and passed are not interchangeable. Costumer when you mean customer is just plain embarrassing. Bemused is not the same thing as amused.
Do not get me started on the then/than issue so many of you seem to have. That one is also simple to understand if you just think about it for half a second or so.
My advice: get a beta who has a clue, and instead of just using her/him as a tool, learn from her/him.
Sincerely,
Girl Who Shouldn't Read at Fanfiction.net
"Your" and "you're" are actually very simple to differentiate. Rather than explaining possessives and contractions, as that seems to make people's heads spin, I'll simply state that if you can break the word you're using in any given sentence into "you" and "are", then you should use "you're." If that's not what you mean, then go with "your."
SIMPLE.
Also please note that the past tense of drag is not drug. Drug is either a pharmaceutical or, as a verb, means to give someone a pharmaceutical. Dragged is the word you want. Really.
Past and passed are not interchangeable. Costumer when you mean customer is just plain embarrassing. Bemused is not the same thing as amused.
Do not get me started on the then/than issue so many of you seem to have. That one is also simple to understand if you just think about it for half a second or so.
My advice: get a beta who has a clue, and instead of just using her/him as a tool, learn from her/him.
Sincerely,
Girl Who Shouldn't Read at Fanfiction.net
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Date: 2006-11-20 05:42 pm (UTC)May I also add that 'cliche' can be both plural and a verb? (Even if I don't have a little accent to stick above it.)
The 'drug' thing really bugs me. Do people actually use it as a past tense in speech? Because it both looks and sounds wrong.
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Date: 2006-11-20 06:19 pm (UTC)Sometimes, it's not talking about physically dragging something. Sometimes, it's talking about someone telling a story and she goes on and on and on. "She drug the story out for over an hour."
There's also the word "crunk" as the past tense of crank.
For instance, "It was really cold that morning, so I crunk up the car to get the engine warm before we drove off."
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Date: 2006-11-20 06:27 pm (UTC)I don't care how vernacular "I could care less" is, for another example. It simply doesn't make sense in the context it's usually delivered. The proper phrase is and alway will be "I couldn't care less."
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Date: 2006-11-20 06:39 pm (UTC)"Couldn't care less" is one of my bugaboos too.
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Date: 2006-11-20 07:08 pm (UTC)