Loydene
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 2,639
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jul 8, 2014 16:31:47 GMT
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Post by Loydene on Jul 27, 2021 18:41:18 GMT
I'm a former English teacher and a "silent grammar cop" -- I say it correctly and "silently judge" otherwise.
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Oct 7, 2024 11:26:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2021 19:08:25 GMT
I would probably get it all wrong , I am useless at grammar.
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Post by HelenaJole on Jul 27, 2021 20:05:07 GMT
At the beginning of a sentence it should be easy to know which pronoun to use. I can see people having a hard time with things like "This is my sister and I at the beach." Even though most people are probably familiar with "It is I!" and "This is she," I think we're getting less comfortable with actually using them. (I heard people use "lay" wrong constantly on TV/movies. I am also consistently bothered by the pronunciation of "forward" but maybe that's just me. 😆 ) Lay is a problem! Chickens lay, people lie. How do people pronounce "forward?" I hope not like I hear them pronounce "height." They had a third "h" on the end of it. I hear it as "foward" (Provo Craft once even had a paper-cut title where it was spelled that way!) I do hear people say "heighth" a lot.
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Post by Really Red on Jul 27, 2021 21:45:21 GMT
HelenaJole - Foward? Hmm. Maybe it's a New England-type of accent?
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