grammer? as in programmer? or do you mean grammar?

[flaviomatani]

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 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..

< /pedantic>

Comments

[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

What are you basing that on? I was schooled 'up north' and it doesn't fit my experience. I also know a number of teachers who work throughout the UK and I'm sure they'd also dispute what you say.

[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

erm...

I also know a number of teachers who work throughout the UK and I'm sure they'd dispute what you say.

Pardon me!

[jupiter909.livejournal.com]

I'm basing that on my experience whilst working at a 6th form college in a northern town.

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.