Hi people.
This tutorial will be added to over the next couple of weeks, or longer if you ask for specifics, and is designed to cover the basics of correct grammar and punctuation.
Firstly, I'll apologise to all of you who are doing a perfectly good job with your writing and have no need of anything I write here. You may leave now.
Secondly, everything I put here as a correction is something I've read here on the forum. People make mistakes for one of two reasons: either they're rushing, or they don't know the right way to present their written work. Both reasons are apparent on the site but I'm not going to concentrate on those who make the odd typo. This is for people who don't know better.
Thirdly (and lastly), because I'm English I will use English spellings. I'll use English spellings despite the American spell-checker attempting to tell me I'm wrong, like it somehow has the God-given right to put wavy red lines under all the words I've spelled properly just because I've used an "s" instead of a "z", or added a "u" to make the word correct. Color? Geez...
OK, off we go:
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Not that mine is perfect, but I must have had VERY GOOD TEACHERS as I was painfully and deliberately acquiring English as my second language...I would never have had the guts to put anything up as training but I find it hilarious and can only commend you, Paul.I feel like I have found a soul mate griping about the same thing. I hope you have given a tutorial on my pet hate: the misuse of the words to lay and to lie. My patients always tell me they were laying down...their life, perhaps? And working in Ashton-under - Lyne near Manchester one of my patients proceeded to tell me: "I were just eating me tea, when..."
Coming from South Africa I never thought that i would need an interpreter for English, but there I did!
ReplyWhen ever I hear the word "sat" on telly I shout the word "sitting!" My wife just sighs.
I'll try to do "me" and "I" tomorrow, along with the correction to "me and him went out".
1) It's not 'Lay Lady Lay', it's 'Lie Lady Lie';
2) It's not 'Lay Down, Sally', it's 'Lie Down, Sally'; and
3) It's not 'I Feel Good!', but 'I Feel Well'.
I may not have used the proper punctuation above, but this discussion is about grammar, right? :-)
