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mentalboy
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PostPosted: 14:30 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Todays grammar lesson! (now with added fail:)) Reply with quote
For those who should know better and the rest of us who like a laugh! Laughing

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PostPosted: 14:34 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why blank out the fuckin swear words? Its a fuckin picture, it doesn't affect fuckin karma.
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PostPosted: 14:37 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
You could have used correct grammar in the thread title!
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PostPosted: 15:36 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm sorry but it was fuckin' copy/pasted like that. Laughing

Care to elaborate Tungtvann?
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PostPosted: 15:38 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tungtvann wrote:
You could have used correct grammar in the thread title!


^this XD
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PostPosted: 16:26 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
mentalboy wrote:
I'm sorry but it was fuckin' copy/pasted like that. Laughing

Care to elaborate Tungtvann?


Today's
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PostPosted: 16:36 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tungtvann wrote:
mentalboy wrote:

Care to elaborate Tungtvann?


Today's


So for your benefit, written out longhand your way we'd have:

Today is grammar lesson.

Back to your studies lad Laughing

(If you're confused here it's because today is referring to a specific once only occurence, ie today is not, nor ever will be plural - you cannot refer to yesterday or tomorrow as today, ever. If I were to say 'all of your todays' then I should really write that as todays'. Still confused then I'm sure a grammar nazi will be along shortly to explain it far better than I ever can. Smile )
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PostPosted: 16:41 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Possessive Apostrophe
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PostPosted: 16:43 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's a possessive, not a contraction. Tungtvann is correct - you want an apostrophe in "Today's" for it to make sense.
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PostPosted: 16:47 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 16:49 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wow. Just...wow.
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PostPosted: 16:53 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
mentalboy wrote:

So for your benefit, written out longhand your way we'd have:

Today is grammar lesson.

Back to your studies lad Laughing

(If you're confused here it's because today is referring to a specific once only occurence, ie today is not, nor ever will be plural - you cannot refer to yesterday or tomorrow as today, ever. If I were to say 'all of your todays' then I should really write that as todays'. Still confused then I'm sure a grammar nazi will be along shortly to explain it far better than I ever can. Smile )


You fail as a grammar nazi. Today's grammar lesson is correctly using a possessive apostrophe as in it's a grammar lesson that's happening today.

Duh. Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:08 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Islander wrote:

You fail as a grammar nazi. Today's grammar lesson is correctly using a possessive apostrophe as in it's a grammar lesson that's happening today.

Duh. Laughing


Today I shall mostly remember that in the day's ahead I'll be minding my P's and Q's (Better?) Smile
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PostPosted: 17:13 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:16 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
mentalboy wrote:
Islander wrote:

You fail as a grammar nazi. Today's grammar lesson is correctly using a possessive apostrophe as in it's a grammar lesson that's happening today.

Duh. Laughing


Today I shall mostly remember that in the day's ahead I'll be minding my P's and Q's (Better?) Smile


Ye's! Much better.
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PostPosted: 17:27 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
mentalboy wrote:
Islander wrote:

You fail as a grammar nazi. Today's grammar lesson is correctly using a possessive apostrophe as in it's a grammar lesson that's happening today.

Duh. Laughing


Today I shall mostly remember that in the day's ahead I'll be minding my P's and Q's (Better?) Smile


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PostPosted: 17:29 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 17:31 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
THE ONLY TIME "todays" is valid with an S on it like that, is when you are referring to more than one of them.

i.e., "Where are all of my yesterdays, todays and tomorrows ... "
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PostPosted: 17:45 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tungtvann - sorry to question your superior knowledge of grammar earlier.

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PostPosted: 17:49 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 18:09 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yep - it's up there.
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Sorry but people who say "could of" make me want to hit them with a cricket bat.
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scorps wrote:
people who say "could of" make me want to hit them with a cricket bat.


Could of : Coulda
Should of: Shoulda
Would of: Woulda
Give it me: Gimme
Don't even: Dunneven
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PostPosted: 18:51 - 22 Dec 2012    Post subject: Re: . Reply with quote
hellkat wrote:
Could of have: Coulda
Should of have: Shoulda
Would of have: Woulda
Give it to me: Gimme
Don't even: Dunneven
Innit: I am living in London but I was actually born in foreign climes.

Extra marks could have been garnered with the inclusion of 'Yagetmetho'.


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