Help me find 5 mistakes and than solution to thoes mistakes!

[Gordon Keehn]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> Thom Paine wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:11, John Meagher wrote:
>>
>>>> Spelled "than" instead of "then", too. :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Also, the article "the" should be inserted between "then" and 
>>> "solution"
>>>
>>> -- still one more to go.  This is getting tough..
>>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe 5 should be spelled out five, instead of the numeral.
>>
>> And if we have to find five mistakes on every line, this will take a
>> month of Sundays....
>
>
> 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.
>
> My current three primary pet peeves:
>
> 1. "Me and John...".  Wrong!  "John and I...".  Correct.
>
> 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")
>
> Of course, this is all undeniably off topic.  Class dismissed.
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I ain't got no need for no good grammar nohow.  (Grandpa don't neither.)