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I often feel a bit shy to point out inconsistencies of grammar and spelling, being after all a blodi forrener and very often hasty and careless to check before I post, but further to a lament from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cyber_child (unfortunately in a protected post, so only people in his flist can see it), here is one more annoying little thing that I see every day, a very common one:
'It's' is not a possessive adjective or pronoun. It is a contraction of 'it' and 'is'. So, please, "the dog and it's puppy" would mean, if anything, that the dog was a puppy -or something like that. It would not mean 'the dog and the puppy of the dog'.
'Your' and 'you're', likewise, are not interchangeable!
Some of the other obvious ones (with the medal of honour going to 'I would of done') in Bob's post..
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cyber_child (unfortunately in a protected post, so only people in his flist can see it), here is one more annoying little thing that I see every day, a very common one:'It's' is not a possessive adjective or pronoun. It is a contraction of 'it' and 'is'. So, please, "the dog and it's puppy" would mean, if anything, that the dog was a puppy -or something like that. It would not mean 'the dog and the puppy of the dog'.
'Your' and 'you're', likewise, are not interchangeable!
Some of the other obvious ones (with the medal of honour going to 'I would of done') in Bob's post..
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'Would of' drives me crackers; yesterday there was a thread in which someone corrected this in another's post. The OP wigged out about how she did know the correct form really, but continued to use 'should of' and 'could of' throughout her comments.
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http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=82113&in_page_id=34
There is actually a full research paper available in PDF, should you be particularly bored.
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your - noun (used when describing a noun - your coat, your car)
you're - verb (used when describing a "feeling" etc, you're happy today)
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"Your coat", if written as "You're coat", would expand to "You are coat" and wouldn't make any sense.
"You're happy" would expand to "You are happy", which is fine.
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Confusing these two (ie not knowing the difference) is inexcusable unless your completely stupid. But if you are a bit thick, then that's a perfect excuse, like being bright but dyslexic. Either way it's just the way you are.
However, I often type them the wrong way because I'm just too lazy to bother checking everything on the way from brain to keyboard. See above for a perfect example. I usually go back and correct them after. Except on lj, cos life's too short for that. :)
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"Me was doing me work and it were taking a long time."
I though the UK had some sort of standard body to ensure these matters did not arise?
I cringe reading that. I am not the most articulate and prose gifted of people and as such I welcome corrects within reason. What that reason entails is open to debate.
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I also know a number of teachers who work throughout the UK and I'm sure they'd dispute what you say.
Pardon me!
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May I back my case with the following link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=413866&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true
I highly suggest you ask the teachers you know to show you samples of the work they need mark and how it is degrading year by year.
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and no, i don't use capitals when i write lj comments - i'm too lazy...
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'Its' is one not many people seem to know about, although when typing speedily sometimes i do it by accident (but hopefully realise afterwards!)
general misuse of apostrophes is always annoying.
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When what is meant is "Aren't I?" or "Won't I?", etc.
Gah!
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