grammar refresher - Page 4

"Sorry, I can't resist. Do you mean Before Madonna (the singer), or before "The" Madonna, or do you mean prima donna? :-) Yes, I am being a smart-ass, but really, you did set it up yourself. :-)"

Mystere, for all intensive purposes, it's an old joke directed towards grammar police.

Got you again.  

I have one thought on this topic:

If you can't put enough thought or effort into making your post readable to the public, then why should ANYONE put any thought or effort into trying to decipher what you're trying to say.

If you have microsoft the plurals with apostrophe S  is often in the spell check and is incorrect.   Maybe this is why there are   's  all over the place.

Terri

Good one Y R that was funny

Steve

Hey missbeeb

You are correct

Forgive me, i was pulled up on a pigeon forum for the same mistake. Of course it is the UK not  just England

Steve

Three Cheers for the bonny Scots, a great country and very nice people

Thanks Steve, and as you probably know in some parts of Scotland there is a whole different language altogether!!! lol, liz

My Dad was from the UK- & made our lives miserable as children if we didn't use correct grammar, or if we put our elbows on the table. Probably as part of my teenage rebellion, I picked up some of the fithiest vocabulary I could find. However, his insistance for at least average vocabulary skills has never left me. Spelling is another matter! LOL! And I never knew that about Spell check....I have often thought to myself....'that can't be right?'...after hitting the Spell check tab. And my spelling really deteriorates when my keyboard needs batteries! (--or when I can't find my tri-focals!----)

People who learn English as a second language, or 3rd, or 4th, are generally very motivated individuals, who understand that they need those language skills to be respected in English speaking countries. By comparison,how many Americans are fluent in a second language? Or even in their own? -sigh- My step daughter is an English professor, working on her Doctoral thesis. She keeps after me, now! jh

I spelled mussel and I meant muzzle.I was thinking about it all night, now I will have to go back and correct it.