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learn the rule: your / you're
- your is a possessive adjective, indicating ownership of something
- That is your sock.
- Where is your potato?
- you're is a contraction (combination) of you and are
- Do you know what you're doing?
- You're stupid.
- The two are not interchangeable.
- Getting it wrong makes you look stupid. And ugly.
still confused? let ross explain it for you.
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rant box - let it all out
Muzza said My pet hate is the misuse of less instead of fewer. For example, "there are less people here than last night". This should be "there are fewer people here than last night". Fewer should be used when there are discrete objects (such as people).
You don't say "there are much people here tonight". Instead, you correctly say "there are many people here tonight". Conversely, you can say "how much water is in that bucket?", but you shouldn't say "how many water is in that bucket?". So if everybody uses much/many correctly, why can't they use less/fewer correctly?
Beeadsjsh said your stupid its okay too do that
Katelyn said Is it really THAT hard to use correct grammar? Apostrophe abuse makes me want to jump off a cliff.
Eeee said WHY CAN'T PEOPLE SPELL DEFINITELY?!?!?! why do they feel the need to put and "a"?!
Abhishek said The "of/have" section is a real eye-opener. I had no idea that people say things like "I should of gone home" :|
YuckyChucky said BIG annoyance: using threw instead of through. YUCK.
WeirdedOutSocialite said I have recently come across many ugly people saying "yu" instead of "you". I don't know/understand why.
Dani said :) love.
Sugarpike said Please add affect/effect to your "annoyances" menu....even my boss misuses this. Just what good is a college degree these days....mumble, mumble, rant....
Matt said Additional things that belong on this website:
1) Subjunctive mood: "if I was ..." is wrong in American English, and it sounds stupid. My response: "Was you or wasn't you?" (My understanding is that British English differs in this regard, but I won't forgive US speakers when even George W Bush gets this grammatical feature correct.)
2) Proper use of the adverb "not". For example, I occasionally hear someone say, "All of us are not going," (Nobody is going!) instead of, "Not all of us are going," (Some of us *are* going!) which is what the speaker intended to say. This is particularly insidious because both are grammatically correct, but they mean different things!
You don't say "there are much people here tonight". Instead, you correctly say "there are many people here tonight". Conversely, you can say "how much water is in that bucket?", but you shouldn't say "how many water is in that bucket?". So if everybody uses much/many correctly, why can't they use less/fewer correctly?
Beeadsjsh said your stupid its okay too do that
Katelyn said Is it really THAT hard to use correct grammar? Apostrophe abuse makes me want to jump off a cliff.
Eeee said WHY CAN'T PEOPLE SPELL DEFINITELY?!?!?! why do they feel the need to put and "a"?!
» Eeee replied by and, i mean an :)
Abhishek said The "of/have" section is a real eye-opener. I had no idea that people say things like "I should of gone home" :|
YuckyChucky said BIG annoyance: using threw instead of through. YUCK.
WeirdedOutSocialite said I have recently come across many ugly people saying "yu" instead of "you". I don't know/understand why.
Dani said :) love.
Sugarpike said Please add affect/effect to your "annoyances" menu....even my boss misuses this. Just what good is a college degree these days....mumble, mumble, rant....
Matt said Additional things that belong on this website:
1) Subjunctive mood: "if I was ..." is wrong in American English, and it sounds stupid. My response: "Was you or wasn't you?" (My understanding is that British English differs in this regard, but I won't forgive US speakers when even George W Bush gets this grammatical feature correct.)
2) Proper use of the adverb "not". For example, I occasionally hear someone say, "All of us are not going," (Nobody is going!) instead of, "Not all of us are going," (Some of us *are* going!) which is what the speaker intended to say. This is particularly insidious because both are grammatically correct, but they mean different things!
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