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 Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:42 am
To be honest, this may as well be Zulu to me, since I couldn't tell a suffix from an adverb. >.>
(Yes, I know the two couldn't be less related)
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:58 am
Are you certain about "alright" not being a proper word? I checked it in my Franklin Spelling Ace thesaurus and it came up. Firefox isn't red-lining it. According to Dictionary.com, it's alright to use, but not formally. Quote: —Usage note The form alright as a one-word spelling of the phrase all right in all of its senses probably arose by analogy with such words as already and altogether. Although alright is a common spelling in written dialogue and in other types of informal writing, all right is used in more formal, edited writing.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:07 pm
Intuicide I stopped reading when I realized that you're a bit of a hypocrite. You were doing okay until your bit about the research paper. "Select something in which you are interested," is proper grammar. -edit- I'm sorry; I may have sounded rude. I only mean to correct what needs to be corrected.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:10 pm
little_evil_goth "Different than" isn't proper English? I had no idea! Thank you, I can use these.
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:12 pm
Yami no Hitokiri Are you certain about "alright" not being a proper word? I checked it in my Franklin Spelling Ace thesaurus and it came up. Firefox isn't red-lining it. According to Dictionary.com, it's alright to use, but not formally. Quote: —Usage note The form alright as a one-word spelling of the phrase all right in all of its senses probably arose by analogy with such words as already and altogether. Although alright is a common spelling in written dialogue and in other types of informal writing, all right is used in more formal, edited writing.
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:34 am
Its always annoyed me how people keep on using 'different than'. It's 'different from'. This is a helpful topic. It's like a summary of everything you learn in English class
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:56 am
felicityvalentine Its always annoyed me how people keep on using 'different than'. It's 'different from'. This is a helpful topic. It's like a summary of everything you learn in English class
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:20 pm
It's been a long time since I've looked at this.. Glad to see it helped 11 personas so far. > w<
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:43 pm
Wow! Thats amazing! Thank you very much! I am going to take notes on this.
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:32 pm
This is a good list,and should be very helpful to anyone needing pointers. I have to dispute some of the words it says don't exist, though.
I agree with the previously mentioned "alright" as being a word. It may have originated as the two word "all right" but is typically spelled "alright" today. It is also listed in the Merriam Webster Dictionary, though it simple says to refer to the definitition for "all right."
While "moneywise" may not be a word, it could be acceptable to say "money wise." Saying something like, "Money wise, she is doing fine," would be using the definition of "way, manner or fashion" for wise. It's basically the equivalent of saying that someone is doing well financially. Saying that a person is "money wise" would be like saying he or she is wise in matters concerning money.
Perhaps the "wise" issue in fundamentally wrong in some way I am not aware of, but it seems to be commonly accepted as a phrase.
I commonly say "off of" and while it's not correct, I think it may be a regional thing. It's kind of like the midwestern (and possibly southern?) habit of saying things along the lines of, "Where is my coat at?" It's not correct, but somehow it became how many people use it.
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:54 am
Wow =) very nice! I appreciate the effort you took! I learned a lot of new things =) (though I can't guarantee that I'll remember them =/)
Thank you! =)
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:56 pm
I wish I had read this topic before I wrote my English essay. crying
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:14 am
Words we are forbidden to use in essays (by my AP English Teacher anyway, I'm not so sure about other teachers.) Remember, for it to be frobidden some one had to use it first. xp
Calling the reader you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves
Basically
Actually
Really
Hisself-NOT A WORD
Ourself-NO SUCH WORD
Themself- WHY DO AP STUDENTS KEEP MAKING UP WORDS?
Finally, don't mix up then and than. Then is a time sequence, than is a comparison. This scares me. AP English Students make these mistakes. eek
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