Thread: Grammar 101

Too... many... grammars...
It's still the weekend, people! Some of us don't want to worry about grammar.

Yeah! Grammar!

*gives grammar a big hug*

Just reading a Wikipedia article on American grammar makes me nauseous.

Pittsburgh is the champion.
I already ate.
I'll write him

Aaaarrgh! *Shuts eyes and assumes the foetal position*

Heh, the punctuation within quotes thing annoys me only when it comes to apostraphes ending at the end of a quote.

"Blah was telling me about this 'thing'".

The apostraphe messed with the quote marks, but if you stuck a fullstop there, you'd have the whole .". thing again

Originally Posted by Identity

Just reading a Wikipedia article on American grammar makes me nauseous.

Pittsburgh is the champion.
I already ate.
I'll write him

Aaaarrgh! *Shuts eyes and assumes the foetal position*
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Ahahaha

Originally Posted by Identity

i.e. Well, I thought it meant "for example" but I
looked it up in the dictionary and it said "that is (to say)" which I think
is about the same as "for example".
Apostrophe is used, in the circumstances, as a possessive. So if
the subject (Chris) is singular, meaning one, you add 's (Chris's house).
If the subject (a group of philosophers or United States) is plural, meaning
more than one and already has an s at the end, you just add an apostrophe
(philosophers' point of view or the United States' view).
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Just to tie onto this, you don't do this with plural words though!

Eg. "People's republic of China", not "Peoples' republic of China"

examples:

Joe's state is Ohio.
Since it is not actually Joes. Do you add an apostrophe?

Ohio is Joe's state. Just like you can say that your mother is Howie's mother. Basicly if it is like a situation that doesnt involve physical ownage, only if it is because of a law or other type, Than it can be reversed. Since talons are physically on a birds foot, you cant say that the bird is on the talon's body, because psysically the body is the main part of the bird.


Quotes:

Seeker said that ice dawg said " blah blah bla blalbla"
Who are you actually quoting? Seeker said it, But it is once removed.
I would guess the original person?

You are quoting Seeker, Because you said that seeker said it.


And when you quote words. For what reason? Other than what they were meant for, Quoting others words

Howitzer is acting a bit "freakish" this morning.
Words with emphasise?

I'm not sure that is official grammar, I think people just started doing that for no reason. but in that case it is to emphasise freakish.

Edit: I just remembered. In that situation you are quoting what someone else said still usually. But in that situation the qotation is the opposite of how you actually feel. That quotation is wrong, unless you consider what i said before the edit.

Originally Posted by xcrissxcrossx

Howitzer is acting a bit "freakish" this morning.
Words with emphasise?

The sample is fine, but this is not emphasis. For emphasis, the proper style is italics. (Underlines only came about because the old typewriters couldn't do italics.)

Please see my above post regarding the misuse of quotation marks for emphasis.

In your sample, there is an implied meaning of "as people like to say." This turns it into a virtual quotation.