Help me find 5 mistakes and than solution to thoes mistakes!
Aaron Gaudio
prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org
Tue Aug 17 19:15:12 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:10 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Yes. When I learned this there were two rules that were applied
> equally often:
>
> Rule 1: The values zero through ten are to be spelled out
> Rule 2: Single-digit values (zero through nine) were to be spelled out
>
> Of course, that was back in the stone age (the early 60s) when the
> rules seemed to mean something.
>
>
Hey I learned this from Dvorak Teaches Typing :)
> My current three primary pet peeves:
>
> 1. "Me and John...". Wrong! "John and I...". Correct.
"John and me" could also be correct, depending on the context. For
instance "She baked a cake for John and me."
>
> 2. The word is "separate", people. There is no such word as "seperate"
> in the English language.
>
> 3. Plurals do NOT use an apostrophe unless it is a plural possessive or
> possessive of a subject that ends in "s". Examples:
>
> "dogs" means multiple instances (correct plural)
>
> "dog's" means the object is owned by the dog (possessive)
>
> "dogs'" means many dogs own the object (plural possessive)
>
> "Rick Stevens' car" means my car (possessive of subject ending
> in "s")
Furthermore, some pronouns don't use apostrophes for possessive. E.g.
"it's" means "it is", "its" means something belonging to "it"; ditto for
"their"/"theirs".
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