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Nothing is worse (in the written word) that superfluous apostrophe's.
Simplest concept in the world. Why would anyone say "at it is best"?
"ATM machine." Automatic Teller Machine machine.
"He got the shaft."
Grammatically correct. Quite often, though, one hears the grammatically incorrect, "He got shafted".
The mistake I hear the most which grates on my nerves is when someone uses me in place of I. "Me and Bob saw a good movie the other day." I even hear on-air journalists make this mistake frequently.
You wouldn't say, "Me saw a good movie."
Also, using us in place of we. "Us customers got shafted by this malfunctioning ATM machine."
Nothing is worse (in the written word) that superfluous apostrophe's.
Simplest concept in the world. Why would anyone say "at it is best"?
I sympathize with that one. You wouldn't write, "That is Harrys baseball.". Apostrophes denote possession, so using one with its seems correct at first blush.
Or was the whole post a joke? You did, after all, use an apostrophe in apostrophes.......
Nothing is worse (in the written word) that superfluous apostrophe's.
Simplest concept in the world. Why would anyone say "at it is best"?
I sympathize with that one. You wouldn't write, "That is Harrys baseball.". Apostrophes denote possession, so using one with its seems correct at first blush.
Or was the whole post a joke? You did, after all, use an apostrophe in apostrophes.......
Yes, "apostrophe's" was a joke. I have to force myself to type that.
Possessive is one thing but it's is always "it is". The possessive never occurred to me. I was taught the 's - possessive only goes onto nouns, not pronouns. And to just reinsert the letter the apostrophe stands for (i) and if it doesn't make sense it doesn't get used. Hence my guffaw when I read signs saying "USED TIRE IS"
Which reminds me -- Strunk & White must die. On first glance at that manual they at least wasted no time making an enemy of me with their insistence, right there on page 1, that the possessive of "something belonging to Jesus" would be Jesus's. I shit you not.
The use and abuse of the word "absolutely".What is so difficult about the concept of twelve o'clock NOON? Everywhere I look I see people referring to "12 pm." Even on the Weather Channel!
"p.m." stands for "post meridiem," which, in latin means, "after mid-day (noon)" So saying "12 o'clock pm" is like saying "noon, after noon." For some reason, it drives me nuts.
"I could care less." Total nonsense, yet it is used all the time. To have any rational meaning whatsoever, one should say, "I couldn't care less." To say, "I could care less," is to say that you DO care, which is the OPPOSITE of what is intended.
"He got the shaft." This unfortunate expression refers to anal rape. Same for "He got screwed." Used all the time in casual conversation, but clearly it should be abolished from the current American lexicon.
"This is truly a QUALITY product!" Quality is a NOUN, not an adjective; it cannot properly be used to describe anything. To use it as an adjective is idiotic. The proper expression would be, "This is a high quality product." To say that it is a quality product is like saying, "Manute Bol was a very height basketball player."
Feel free to add your own.
Nothing is worse (in the written word) that superfluous apostrophe's.
Simplest concept in the world. Why would anyone say "at it is best"?
I sympathize with that one. You wouldn't write, "That is Harrys baseball.". Apostrophes denote possession, so using one with its seems correct at first blush.
Or was the whole post a joke? You did, after all, use an apostrophe in apostrophes.......
Yes, "apostrophe's" was a joke. I have to force myself to type that.
Possessive is one thing but it's is always "it is". The possessive never occurred to me. I was taught the 's - possessive only goes onto nouns, not pronouns. And to just reinsert the letter the apostrophe stands for (i) and if it doesn't make sense it doesn't get used. Hence my guffaw when I read signs saying "USED TIRE IS"
Which reminds me -- Strunk & White must die. On first glance at that manual they at least wasted no time making an enemy of me with their insistence, right there on page 1, that the possessive of "something belonging to Jesus" would be Jesus's. I shit you not.
Other pronouns tend to have entirely different words used for the possessive; he becomes his, she becomes her, they becomes their. Offhand I am not coming up with an example analogous with it.
I actually was looking at a site regarding apostrophes and possessives earlier and the advice it gave was to just be consistent when it comes to apostrophes and proper names. This site had no problem with Jesus's rather than Jesus' so long as the person did the same with all names.
I hate when people say
You are a stupid fuck
Instead of the more proper
You are a stupid fucker
Nah, when I say "Fuck you" I am wanting D4 to fuck 'em.I hate when people say
You are a stupid fuck
Instead of the more proper
You are a stupid fucker
For that matter --- "fuck you" makes no grammatical sense.
At best it's a wish for good fortune.
To me, the phrases that people use these days like "cray cray", "bestie", and "selfie" for example sound like things that a three year old would say.
God bless you always!!!
Holly