Help me find 5 mistakes and than solution to thoes mistakes!
Bryan Encina
bryan.encina at valleypres.org
Tue Aug 17 19:29:17 UTC 2004
> > 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")
> >
>
> I just have to add one last thing.
>
> My grade ten english teacher taught me one thing that I'll
> never forget.
>
> Anytime someone said 'is when' he freaked out and corrected
> them that it
> should be 'occurs when'. I still remember this 19 years later. And I
> still quote it when people say it to me.
>
And my grade ten english teacher taught us that plants and animals are
raised, children are reared.
-b
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