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I'll vent my pet hate at miss used grammar.

 

If I had £1 for every time I have heard someone say "you could of done that....."

 

FFS OF is not the same word as HAVE. It should be "you could have done that....."

 

There. I can sleep easy tonight now that is off my chest.

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1 minute ago, ProDave said:

I'll vent my pet hate at miss used grammar.

 

If I had £1 for every time I have heard someone say "you could of done that....."

 

FFS OF is not the same word as HAVE. It should be "you could have done that....."

 

There. I can sleep easy tonight now that is off my chest.

if I had to pay £1 for every grammatical mistake I would be verging on the national debt :) 

 

I'm not as bad since I downloaded Grammarly 

 

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2 hours ago, recoveringacademic said:

If I were you, lad, I'd .........

 

I've had enough of that: I bet you have too. 

What after-the-horse-has-bolted advice has annoyed you most?

Took my missus out after what seemed like an age of us just not getting to go anywhere. Decided to go for shandy and drove. 

Found a nice car park with loads of cameras and thought tidy, vans safe here. 

Get back at 11:30 pm to find the entrances to the car park chained up and a guy saying "oh,  they lock this place up after 11 on Fridays". 

WHERE WAS THE FACKING SIGN THAT SAYS THAT YOU BASTARDS !!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?

45 min wait for a £15 taxi ride home. 

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1 hour ago, ProDave said:

I'll vent my pet hate at miss used grammar.

 

 

How to soothe a grammar pedant

 

There, their, they’re ;)

 

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I prefer:

 

"If you were me, you would..."

 

The slogan on that mug is a remarkable piece of the printers art. It has been done to look exactly as if photoshopped without adjusting the text to be a curve when photographed. Impressive.

 

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1 hour ago, jack said:

 

Colon required, surely:

 

Woman: without her, man is lost.

 

1 hour ago, Onoff said:

 

Semicolon surley or capital "W" on without?

 

I think it's a semi BUT the for the people I was training, getting them to see that commas did have a use and weren't just there for decoration.  I should have asked, place punctuation I guess.

There was also the difference between 

Let's eat Grandma and Let's eat, Grandma

and another favourite    'Helping your Uncle Jack off a  horse'. and 'Helping your uncle jack off a horse'

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Colon is correct, because the second part is as a result of the first. You'd use a semi if you had two sentences to join together, but style guides increasingly suggest eliminating semicolons wherever possible.

 

Some style guides have it that you'd capitalise the W if the phrase after the colon was a complete sentence, which it is. But there's no hard-and-fast rule.

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