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Re: Common Grammatical and Spelling Errors

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livinarock is not online. livinarock
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01 Nov 2013 11:15 PM
Titles - Capitalize every word, excluding articles.

Sentences - Begin each sentence with a capitalized letter, and end with a punctuation mark such as the period, exclamation mark, or question mark.

Apostrophes: Use for conjunctions (combined words) or words showing possession. e.g. "You're cool!"(you are), "John's chicken is nice."(chicken belonging to John)

Your, you're - Your: showing possession to other person.("Your shoe is on fire.")
You're: you are. ("You're cool!")

Their, they're, there - There: referring to location. ("Look over there!"
They're: they are. ("They're not cool.")
Their: Showing possession to group of people. ("That's their house.")

i.e., e.g., etc. - i.e.: id est (that is)
e.g.: exempli gratia (for example)
etc.: et cetera (so on)


If you already know this stuff, congratulations. If not, I hope you learned something.
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PetRock is not online. PetRock
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01 Nov 2013 11:16 PM
SHUN
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HDINFAMOUS is not online. HDINFAMOUS
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01 Nov 2013 11:16 PM
Underline titles.
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2011luckys is not online. 2011luckys
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01 Nov 2013 11:16 PM
Copy and paste much?
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awesomekevin101 is not online. awesomekevin101
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01 Nov 2013 11:16 PM
who called the grammar police?
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livinarock is not online. livinarock
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01 Nov 2013 11:17 PM
@Hdlnfamous

Only if referring to a work of literature.
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Gaomon94 is not online. Gaomon94
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01 Nov 2013 11:17 PM
I would of fixed the spacing issues before posting this.
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livinarock is not online. livinarock
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01 Nov 2013 11:17 PM
@2011luckys

Not very much. I typed this up myself.
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livinarock is not online. livinarock
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01 Nov 2013 11:18 PM
@Gaomon94

Would have*

And yes, sorry about that. ROBLOX automatically squishes up extra spaces; I didn't realize this when I typed it up.
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01 Nov 2013 11:19 PM
and i*
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Europeancow2 is not online. Europeancow2
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01 Nov 2013 11:20 PM
>capitalize every word in a title

not nececssarily
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livinarock is not online. livinarock
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01 Nov 2013 11:20 PM
@LegoTate

Wrong. First of all, you need to capitalize your "I". Secondly, a semicolon(;) acts as an "and"; it is merely an extension of a sentence.
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HDINFAMOUS is not online. HDINFAMOUS
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01 Nov 2013 11:21 PM
This man must be passing his English classes, I'm impressed. Most of the poor idiots at my school barely pass with a D.
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livinarock is not online. livinarock
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01 Nov 2013 11:21 PM
@Europeancow2

The exceptions were mentioned; i.e. articles.
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livinarock is not online. livinarock
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01 Nov 2013 11:23 PM
@HDINFAMOUS

Why thank you! Personally, I think this should be common knowledge to mostly everyone, because it could literally be learned within three minutes. People just never pay enough attention to get it down, and so the education system extends English classes for years and teaches so little at a time, and even less is absorbed into students' brains.
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Europeancow2 is not online. Europeancow2
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01 Nov 2013 11:24 PM
did i

did i just see incorrect usages of connecting sentences with a comma

ono

the end is near!!!1212
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Seanaustinj is not online. Seanaustinj
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01 Nov 2013 11:27 PM
see

threads like this are the reason why rt is falling.
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livinarock is not online. livinarock
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01 Nov 2013 11:27 PM
@Europeancow2

You did not. Quote the specific part next time if you will, please.
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Gaomon94 is not online. Gaomon94
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01 Nov 2013 11:30 PM
"Secondly, a semicolon(;) acts as an "and"; it is merely an extension of a sentence."

OBJECTION!

Semicolons have many uses and that is not the only use of them.
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01 Nov 2013 11:30 PM
slow down im writing notes!
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01 Nov 2013 11:30 PM
http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=6969850
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livinarock is not online. livinarock
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01 Nov 2013 11:31 PM
Honestly, please, in addition to quoting things when referring to something specific, please explain fully what you're saying if you want to bring a point across. Gaomon, you may be right, but please elaborate.
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Gaomon94 is not online. Gaomon94
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01 Nov 2013 11:33 PM
"Personally, I think this should be common knowledge to mostly everyone, because it could literally be learned within three minutes."
Not necessarily. Some people have a hard time retaining information and if it isn't your native language that's just an extra layer to the puzzle.

"People just never pay enough attention to get it down, and so the education system extends English classes for years and teaches so little at a time, and even less is absorbed into students' brains."

Not really. Each year of English introduces a few new mechanics and then reviews them as well as previous mechanics you would of learned in lower levels. It slowly will sink into your head. Learning a language and its grammatical styles isn't as easy as you want to believe. Now deflate the ego for us.
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penguinsrock124 is not online. penguinsrock124
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01 Nov 2013 11:35 PM
I already use grammar.
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livinarock is not online. livinarock
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01 Nov 2013 11:37 PM
@Gaomon94

Right, but the thing is that, like I said, it takes literally just a few minutes to learn those rights to so many wrongs, even if English wasn't your primary; it's like learning a language without understanding the syntax of it. And for those who have a learning disability, that's why I said "mostly everyone," and not just "everyone".

You're restating what I said, though elongating it. English teaches few new concepts each year, to keep the lowest of students on track, but it's probably not the optimum method of going about it. By the way, stop saying "would of," because you're just trying to spell out what you commonly hear. You really mean to say "would have".
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