"Should of" does not equate to "should have".
Posted on 08/30/2015 10:38:18 AM PDT by B4Ranch
That error is committed by people who are trying too hard and lack a fundamental understanding of sentence structure. Just removing "Hillary and" highlights the problem for the vast majority of English-speakers, Jamaicans notwithstanding.
Thank you! Me too.
Amazingly the cable and networks are chucked full with “professionals” who don’t know their grammar.
Language is the toolkit of thought. If one uses the tools sloppily he will think sloppily. If one pays attention to his language tools he will make fewer errors in reasoning.
Tell that to the schools who are putting out push button brain dead students year after year.
Second, numbers at the beginning of a sentence should be spelled out.
Maybe. But IMHO you're referring to STYLE, as opposed to grammar per se.
Using the noun “fun” as an adjective or adverb as in “How fun.”
It's 'An' when the 'h' is silent. The biggest abusers are those who read you the news.
"Should of" does not equate to "should have".
Everyone ignores me. And I can’t stand ignorant people.
She didn't learn to speak English fluently until she was thirty, but her English is better than than many of her students who were born here.
The state just mandated a minimum 5 page paper for each intro class, and the professors are in a justified tizzy about how they will get the students to write a paper that long.
I recall having to write multiple 15 page papers with proper citations and bibliographies for a single English class in high school.
Most of her students are public school graduates-- the university ought to be able to charge back the costs of remedial math and English classes to the "high schools" from which they graduated.
At work we have to enter many names on forms. A coworker insists on using an apostrophe for every final s, thus Roger’s and Jone’s. I can’t convincer to drop the apostrophes. She think the letter is ‘s.
Later
See, in my mind the cartoon is incorrect as it should read “his feet” or “her feet”, not “its feet”...
LOL. Well done!
“Did you know?? Hitler’s speeches were checked by a grammar Nazi.”
That’s one of the reasons they were so effective.
In public school such things are not taught anymore. Teaching grammar and spelling is disrespectful to the unique culture of Negros.
Would of
Could of
Should of
Plurals do not take apostrophes. It is the possessive aspect of “Freepers’” that takes the apostrophe, not the plural aspect.
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