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Nov 20, 2011 09:25PM
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The verb "to be" is one of the few (only?) verbs where subject and object are both permitted to be in the nominative. "I" and "he" are in the nominative case. "Him" is the accusative case.
Thank you LG. But your nominative and accusative cases have sent me scurrying, crablike, for my bottle of Excedrin (only because I'm out of heroin).
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Never mind LG. I misread your post. Good Night
Kenneth P. wrote: "He and she went to dinner.I went to dinner with him and her.
Yay or nay?"
The easy way to determine whether you're using the correct pronouns is to try each separately:
He went to dinner. She went to dinner. Both are correct, so you're fine.
I went to dinner with him. I went to dinner with her. Both are correct, so you're fine again.
Easy peasy.
This isn't a language/grammar question, but I didn't know where else to ask it. When I learned to type, two spaces were required after a period. Has this changed to only one space?
Yes.I learned the same way you did, but that was on those antiques we called "typewriters." WIth the advent of computers, the single space became the norm.
NORM!!!Thanks, Phil, for the info. Who knows what else has slipped by me. What a world!
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Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technol...
(author's opinion, not mine)
If you're writing for publication, it's generally advisable to use only one space after periods and colons instead of two because otherwise you're creating extra work for the copy editor, who will have to go into the document and eliminate the double spaces. No reason to make people's lives more difficult than they need to be. For other applications--personal letters, email, even some types of corporate documents--it's probably okay to use the older typewriting convention of double spacing after a period, although this will probably look more and more dated as time goes by.The current edition (16th) of the Chicago Manual of Style, section 2.9, advises "leaving a single character space, not two spaces, between sentences and after colons used within a sentence." Chicago specifies only one exception, section 14.121, for certain types of technical notation in which no space at all should be used after a colon--for instance, in footnotes for multivolume works, where "volume six, page 194" would be rendered as VI:194.
When I'm proofreading in Word the first thing I do is remove all double spaces.
I'm convinced. Now I have to convince my old dog thumb to do a new trick.
Jonathan wrote: "If you're writing for publication, it's generally advisable to use only one space after periods and colons instead of two because otherwise you're creating extra work for the copy editor, who will ..."-----------
I've read the the keyboard was setup the way it is to slow down the typist on the old manual typewriters. If they were to type faster the keys would jam. My guess is the two space rule also was used to slow the typist down and prevent the keys from jamming.
Personally, I like the look of the two space. Maybe it's because I abhor change. :)
I like double spacing after a full stop.. that will be a hard habit to break.
Jonathan wrote: "If you're writing for publication, it's generally advisable to use only one space after periods and colons instead of two because otherwise you're creating extra work for the copy editor, who will ..."Jonathan, what is this mythical creature, "copy editor"? Few if any publications which I have read in the last two years show any evidence of such aminals.
They exist. I shudder to think how
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By selling ads at a very high rate--although even they are probably hurting a little in the current advertising environment.With regard to non-fiction trade books, it's true that there isn't a specific fact-checking department at most publishers, but there's a certain amount of fact-checking in that a good editor will query an author to back up assertions made in the text. Likewise there is an obligation to perform a measure of due diligence. The situation with James Frey was particularly egregious in that regard, since Frey had originally shopped that project around (according to news reports) as a work of fiction.
My mom sent this to me. I laughed out loud
"Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse."
Lol."Let's eat, Grandma!"
"Let's eat Grandma!"
Save a Grandma: use punctuation!
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Is this the answer to the mystery of why Kevin doesn't capitalize?...
there, their, they're everyone, the language will survive...
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Someone please explain the difference between its and it's.
It's is a contraction of "it is". Its is the possessive of "it" or more than one "it".
Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: ""Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.""I used to work at an Arabian horse farm and they did jack off the horses for artificial insemination. I have pictures. I don't think Uncle Jack did it.
Scout wrote: "Someone please explain the difference between its and it's."'It's' is a contraction for 'it is.' Example: 'It's wonderful' can also be 'It is wonderful.' (The apostrophe is a substitute for the missing 'I' in 'is'; like the missing 'n & o' in 'can't' for 'cannot').
'Its' is a possessive pronoun. Example: 'A leopard can't change its spots'; The spots belong to the leopard.
If you get confused, substitute 'it is' instead and see how it sounds: 'A leopard can't change it is spots'. Nope. Must be 'its spots'. Do leopards have spots?
Do you know why you should never play poker in the jungle? Too many cheetahs out there.
Forgive me for my punctuation and infantile humor.
leopards have spots, jaguars have rosettes, cheetahs have more spotlike spots than either. No help with understanding grammar at all, but meh.Why don't you find any aspirin in the jungle? Because the parrots et em all.
Cheri wrote: "Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: ""Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.""I used to work at an Arabian horse farm and ..."
Did they have a jack off machine for that task?
They did it by hand. No machinery used.
How do you think that could be listed as job experience on a resume (CV)? You started this with your Uncle Jack and his horse.
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