Grammar and spelling tips

[Sarah]

**Wriggles out of the pile, sneaks up behind Dan.....and spear tackles him, throwing him into the pile**

 

[jfarnsworth]

Nah, I love it just the way it is. Unless someone wants to add a few buckets of mud or something slippery. That could be fun. Has anyone seen my hat? It fell off in the pile.



When did people start thinking that the word "myself" is more polite than the word "me?" I see that a lot, too. I hear people saying things like "please talk to myself or Bob about whatever," when it should be "Bob or me." For some reasons, people think that it should always be "Sarah and I" or myself and Feisty Mouse." For example, Sarah and I jumped on the pile, but she got off, leaving Feisty Mouse and me on the floor. Then I laughed myself silly when Joe tried to jump on and Sarah tripped him so he missed the pile. That's how you use those words. I haven't really seen it here, but I hear it a lot. A simple rule is to break the sentence down into two parts. If you want someone to give something to you or someone else, then say "please give it to Joe or me" because "please give it Joe" and "please give it to me" are both proper clauses or sentences; therefore, you can combine them by using the same pronous into "please give to Joe or me," always listing yourself last. But people start sentences with "myself and Sarah" and you shouldn't do that if you care about pronouns.

1. Perfect! I'll get a lawn chair and a few long island iced tea drinks for the men.

2. That is just to mind boggling for a simple @ss like me.

 

[Sarah]

That was great Tony.....I was laughing so hard about tripping Joe....HAHAHA

 

[OUMoose]

1. Perfect! I'll get a lawn chair and a few long island iced tea drinks for the men.

Hmmmm... this needs to be more interesting...

*signals the crane to let loose the 50 gallons of Jello he ordered for this event*

*Grabs a Guinness out of the fridge, pulls up a lawn chair, and enjoys the show*

 

[Sarah]

**Looks up....covered in jello, sees Brad sitting there with cheeky grin! wispers to the ladies!..........takes a running jump and lands on top of Brad covering him in Jello!......COME ON LADIES!**

Hmmmm... this needs to be more interesting...

*signals the crane to let loose the 50 gallons of Jello he ordered for this event*

*Grabs a Guinness out of the fridge, pulls up a lawn chair, and enjoys the show*

 

[OUMoose]

LOL... Pile on all you want, just DON'T SPILL THE GUINNESS!!!!

 

[Xequat]

1. Perfect! I'll get a lawn chair and a few long island iced tea drinks for the men.

2. That is just to mind boggling for a simple @ss like me.

Thanks, I could use a cold one. Worked up a sweat in there; these girls are tough.

Dont you mean too mind-boggling?

Probably better to be a simple *** than a smartass like me, hehehe.

 

[Sarah]

**Takes the Guinness....skulls it in one go.....give's Brad and wink and signals for the ladies to jump on!**

LOL... Pile on all you want, just DON'T SPILL THE GUINNESS!!!!

 

[shesulsa]

In all honesty, I haven't the education to justify this great honour.

Oh yeah, and we'd have to remember that you use the King's English, doncha? Honour and Neighbour and all that.

* signals to others ... ready? 1...2...3...*

BANZAI!!!

 

[jfarnsworth]

Thanks, I could use a cold one. Worked up a sweat in there; these girls are tough..

Nothing wrong with girls being tough. I kind of like a woman who has a little fire in them. %-}

Dont you mean too mind-boggling?

Damn. You know.... I actually did have that first then changed it after I re-read it. Wish I would have paid more attention in english class.

Probably better to be a simple *** than a smartass like me, hehehe.

I like plain old simple. It's easier to live my life that way.

 

[jfarnsworth]

*Grabs a Guinness out of the fridge, pulls up a lawn chair, and enjoys the show*

Cool, pull up a chair and we'll sip our bevridge and watch the ladies. :uhyeah:

 

[raedyn]

open discussion and questions would be cool

Yeah. Cuz sometimes you just don't know the answer. I'm pretty good with most of what people have griped about on here (its/it's, their/there/they're, etc) but there are certain things I've never quite figured out. So to avoid those problems I will go to great lengths to find another way to construct the sentence so I don't show my wrong-ness.

Example: I don't know how to spell "descision" so I usually change it to "choice" when I type it. Is that sad, that I change the way I write things to avoid showing I don't know something? Does that make me a geek? Am I the only one? *looking for Kleenex and a geek-girl support group*

Example: I never did figure out the whole who/whom issue.

 

[Sarah]

HAHA Geek-Girl...that sounds like some kind of comic book super hero!

Look....its 'Geek-Girl'.....Looking at Raedyn dressed in a figure hugging outfit with hands on hips!

hehehe......by the way, its Decision....so your...oopps I mean you're pretty close!! (even I have spell check)


**throws some jello at Geek-Girl**

Yeah. Cuz sometimes you just don't know the answer. I'm pretty good with most of what people have griped about on here (its/it's, their/there/they're, etc) but there are certain things I've never quite figured out. So to avoid those problems I will go to great lengths to find another way to construct the sentence so I don't show my wrong-ness.


Example: I don't know how to spell "descision" so I usually change it to "choice" when I type it. Is that sad, that I change the way I write things to avoid showing I don't know something? Does that make me a geek? Am I the only one? *looking for Kleenex and a geek-girl support group*

Example: I never did figure out the whole who/whom issue.

 

[hardheadjarhead]

I think maybe Steve has passed out from having 4 woman wriggling round on top of him...

Uh, no. I'm still here. Forgive me if I don't stand up right away. That tweaked my back a bit. Uh, yeah...that's it. I can't stand up because my back is sore.

Can we...can we do that again? I mean can YOU do that again?


Regards,


Steve

 

[Feisty Mouse]

Example: I never did figure out the whole who/whom issue.

I think I'm about to embarrass myself with rusty Latin (worse than a rusty knife)....

I believe "who" is used in most cases (let's see - nominative, declarative, accusative, and genative, right? Ah crap!), but "whom" is used in the ablative case - i.e. "to/for whom".

"To whom are you addressing your question?"

and

"For whom are you looking, madam?"

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, and have spilled sour Latin all over myself.

ETA: See, Steve? Who knew that grammar could be such a team sport?

 

[hardheadjarhead]

Okay. It's okay for me to stand up now that my participle is dangling. Fifteen minutes ago that might have caused me some embarrasment.

On with the topic...

"Who is that over there?"
"To whom are you speaking?"

Two examples of what I believe is proper usage. "Who do I give it too" isn't vulgar or improper. "Whom do I give it to" sounds awkward and I believe is incorrect.

Here's a useful site:

http://englishplus.com/grammar/


Regards,


Steve


Regards,


Steve

 

[Xequat]

The way I usually remember that one is: "he = who" and "him = whom." Basically, you use "who" for the subject and "whom" when it's an object. For example, you could say "I jumped on the pile with him;" therefore, "I jumped on the pile with whom?" Or, "He jumped on the pile," so "Who jumped on the pile?" Hard to explain in text, but I hope that that little sound trick of "he-who, him-whom" helps some.


Thanks for the website, HHJH.

 

[TigerWoman]

Anybody want to give me advice about semicolons? Not that I use them a lot (notice that?) on MT but in helping my son on his composition papers, I think I have led him astray. What's the rules on independent and dependent clauses and commas or semicolons again? I've been too long out of school. sigh! TW

 

[ppko]

YAY Munchies!!!

....me thinking we need more men in this pile!!

**Looks up and signals Joe to jump in!!**

ooppss...sorry for the bad grammar...hehe

Oh crap I can't get out of it I am jumping into the pile

 

[shesulsa]

It's okay for me to stand up now that my participle is dangling.

*covers eyes* Man! Tuck that thing in, will ya? And don't tell me you'd have to unlace your boot to do so!