Answers:
- 1. SEEN Have is the helper verb
- 2. SAW Past tense required, but no “helper” verb like have or had
- 3. YOUR possessive - eyes belong to you
- 4. YOU’RE substitute “You are” and it makes sense
- 5. THEIR content belongs to someone
- 6. THERE a place/location
- 7. TOO also or in addition to
- 8. TO indicates a motion of going
- 9. IT’S substitute “It has” been and it makes sense
- 10 .WE’RE again, substitute “we are” and it will make sense
Well, how did you do? I'm sure you aced it!!!
I hope this helps. Like I said, this is just the very tip of the iceberg. However, these are the most common misused words.
Although my kids used to get mad when they were corrected, I hope you don't. Funny, now that they're parents, I watch them correct their kids. Imagine that. LOL. You just can't get lazy when you're writing.
~Debbi
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RaeAnnePond
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Thanks Debbi! Even as a native English speaker some of those still get me, particularly the to and too. That's much clearer now. Thanks very much!
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Debbi26
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Debbi26
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Sure.
Were is simply the past tense of "are". You can say: "My day care children WERE good today" when speaking about them in the past. However, if you're speaking in the present, you'd say: "My day care children ARE good today."
Where refers to a place. "Where" did you put the brandy?" "NY is "where" I was born.
As an added note, We're is a contraction for "we are".
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Were is simply the past tense of "are". You can say: "My day care children WERE good today" when speaking about them in the past. However, if you're speaking in the present, you'd say: "My day care children ARE good today."
Where refers to a place. "Where" did you put the brandy?" "NY is "where" I was born.
As an added note, We're is a contraction for "we are".
Did that help?
BrooklynPhil
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Debbi, those I got right, but I sometimes have to think twice about 'then' and 'than'.
Luckily I had Grammarly before Howard suggested.
The funny thing is Grammarly thinks 'than' might be incorrect.
Luckily I had Grammarly before Howard suggested.
The funny thing is Grammarly thinks 'than' might be incorrect.
Debbi26
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It is a good program but then so is spell check. Nothing computerized is fool proof. I have to think twice about these two and also effect and affect.
Than just indicates a comparison of 2 nouns. Like "Phil is healthier than I am."
Then is a point in time. "He ate well then lost weight."
Good to see you. Thanks for stopping, Phil.
Than just indicates a comparison of 2 nouns. Like "Phil is healthier than I am."
Then is a point in time. "He ate well then lost weight."
Good to see you. Thanks for stopping, Phil.
BrooklynPhil
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HowardJaros
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For those who just can't remember these issues, there is a free app called Grammarly that can run in your Web browser and help out those of us at WA. Nice post!!
Debbi26
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