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agrippa
post Dec 16 2003, 07:43 AM
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Here's a place for us to bore eachother to death about grammar. I'll go first.

I. POSSESSIVES AND PLURALS

Most nouns are made plural by the addition of 's' or 'es'.
computer -> computers
house -> houses

Some nouns have irregular plurals.
mouse -> mice
fish -> fish

A noun is never made plural with an apostrophe.

The apostrope and 's' are used to show possession.
Ron's (belonging to Ron)
Ginny's (belonging to Ginny)

However, pronouns have their own possessive forms:
his (belonging to him)
hers (belonging to her)
theirs (belonging to them)
its (belonging to it; it's means 'it is')
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post Jan 6 2004, 01:20 AM
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Question in the front row. The eager girl with her hand held high. Does anyone see her?
OK I will get to it.

Harry said "I am a magician".

Or

Harry said "I am a magician."

If you notice I have both ways throughout my stories blink.gif


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- agrippa   Grammar 101   Dec 16 2003, 07:43 AM
- - zymurgy   YAY! Grammer pet peaves... For me, it's w...   Dec 16 2003, 09:08 AM
- - agrippa   QUOTE (zymurgy @ Dec 16 2003, 09:08 AM)YAY...   Dec 16 2003, 09:27 AM
- - agrippa   III. Compound sentences. A sentence has both a su...   Dec 16 2003, 10:19 AM
- - evlpez   You know you've been out of school and not wri...   Dec 16 2003, 10:28 AM
- - agrippa   Well - Grammar is kinda my "thing" - I t...   Dec 16 2003, 10:36 AM
- - zymurgy   Oops is right. *thwaps head* I do that all the tim...   Dec 16 2003, 11:01 AM
- - pinkpanther   You know what I hate? When people replace "he...   Dec 16 2003, 12:29 PM
- - zymurgy   Along those lines, it annoys me greatly when the m...   Dec 16 2003, 01:00 PM
- - agrippa   Are you saying you're annoyed by the box itsel...   Dec 16 2003, 01:27 PM
- - zymurgy   The box isn't anoying, it's what the box s...   Dec 16 2003, 06:58 PM
- - agrippa   Necessity is the mother of invention. I figured ou...   Dec 16 2003, 08:04 PM
- - bakbam   Thank you so much for some of the general rules of...   Dec 16 2003, 10:30 PM
- - zymurgy   Thank you, Agrippa! I love the "wait till...   Dec 16 2003, 10:40 PM
- - pinkpanther   Yes, thanks very much! I love the new box (I ...   Dec 17 2003, 02:27 PM
- - evlpez   Harry completed a sentence. I am a magician. So th...   Jan 6 2004, 01:29 AM
- - McGonagall's Cat   OK... Harry said(,) "I am a magician (.)...   Jan 6 2004, 02:38 AM
- - agrippa   QUOTE "I am a wizard," Neville said tent...   Jan 6 2004, 07:39 AM
- - evlpez   It sure does! Thank-you, oh grammar guru!   Jan 6 2004, 09:52 AM
- - zymurgy   As to who/whom: It works thus: Who = Nominative = ...   Jan 6 2004, 11:47 AM
- - agrippa   Although Latin has five (OK, really seven, but fiv...   Jan 6 2004, 01:35 PM
- - zymurgy   Agrippa: I realize that, but in my grammar lessons...   Jan 6 2004, 02:30 PM
- - agrippa   That's interesting. I've never seen an Eng...   Jan 6 2004, 03:09 PM
- - evlpez   This is great. I LOVE having you two around!   Jan 6 2004, 03:11 PM
- - zymurgy   I know, but then again, my books are antideluvian....   Jan 6 2004, 03:26 PM
- - agrippa   I think they call it "past incomplete" o...   Jan 6 2004, 05:36 PM
- - evlpez   Nah... keep it coming as long as you like! Tha...   Jan 6 2004, 11:03 PM
- - zymurgy   Agrippa! Thanks for bringing up the Aorist... ...   Jan 9 2004, 05:19 PM
- - ronsmyman   My biggest pet peeve is when people use the word f...   Jan 11 2004, 08:35 PM
- - Imperia   I hate it when people mix up the words 'except...   Jan 12 2004, 01:59 PM
- - bakbam   QUOTE Instead of asking: "Can I go to the bat...   Jan 12 2004, 03:10 PM
- - agrippa   Technically: "Can I" means "am I a...   Jan 12 2004, 05:13 PM
- - zymurgy   I am still told to say "Might" instead o...   Jan 12 2004, 06:05 PM
- - evlpez   I stopped using "Can I" years ago while ...   Jan 12 2004, 06:46 PM
- - zymurgy   Wouldn't it be rather redundant to date your o...   Jan 12 2004, 06:59 PM
- - pinkpanther   Sometimes I write in all caps if I'm instant m...   Jan 13 2004, 02:38 AM
- - McGonagall's Cat   My parents always did just like Agrippa. "I ...   Jan 13 2004, 03:49 AM
- - evlpez   That's funny. I'll have to use that. My 2 ...   Jan 13 2004, 10:46 AM
- - agrippa   QUOTE (zymurgy @ Jan 12 2004, 06:05 PM)I am s...   Jan 13 2004, 10:51 AM
- - agrippa   QUOTE (McGonagall's Cat @ Jan 13 2004, 03...   Jan 13 2004, 10:54 AM
- - pinkpanther   That reminds me of an old Steve Martin movie (can...   Jan 13 2004, 08:36 PM
- - ronsmyman   I believe you are thinking of Dirty Rotten Scoundr...   Jan 13 2004, 11:07 PM
- - pinkpanther   Yeah, that's what I was thinking of! Tee h...   Jan 14 2004, 12:22 AM
- - evlpez   I loved it. "Ruprect" was brilliant. ...   Jan 14 2004, 12:30 AM
- - MoonNymph   A pet peeve of mine - which you don't see in d...   Feb 10 2004, 07:37 PM
- - froeth   ^ I'm guilty of this! I try very hard not ...   Mar 29 2004, 11:41 AM
- - zymurgy   For people with their/they're/there trouble/, ...   Mar 29 2004, 12:16 PM
- - moonbeam3243   Not so much grammar as linguistics, but... It is ...   Mar 31 2004, 12:05 AM
- - ronsmyman   I have a pet peeve like that. It's Sher-BET ...   Mar 31 2004, 11:04 AM
- - zymurgy   I have a spoken language pet peave too: When peopl...   Mar 31 2004, 12:09 PM
- - GinnyAuror00   The absolute worst is when there is a ridiculous d...   Apr 17 2004, 11:52 PM
- - StarWalker   QUOTE (ronsmyman @ Jan 11 2004, 09:35 PM)My b...   Aug 21 2004, 01:55 PM
- - StarWalker   QUOTE (evlpez @ Jan 12 2004, 07:46 PM)I stopp...   Aug 21 2004, 01:59 PM
- - StarWalker   I see that we all have certain grammatical idiosyn...   Aug 21 2004, 02:40 PM
- - anhaire   My worst pet peeve is "different than." ...   Aug 31 2004, 08:34 AM
- - Miss Trickster   My biggest pet peeve has got to be saying "sa...   Dec 19 2004, 03:36 PM

 

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