Help me find 5 mistakes and than solution to thoes mistakes!
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Aug 17 19:33:16 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 12:15, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> 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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I would have sworn this message base was about Fedora.
Craig
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