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"No, two different spellings, each with its own discrete meaning  "
I don't mind a grammar lesson. Reading a book on grammar now, really good book. I might be able to join the grammar police when I have finished it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"No, two different spellings, each with its own discrete meaning
I don't mind a grammar lesson. Reading a book on grammar now, really good book. I might be able to join the grammar police when I have finished it."
only if your kids have kids, otherwise you wouldnt qualify as a grammar |
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Some others for you then ;
Your, you're, yore, yaw
There, their, they're, theirs, there's
Whose, who's
Its, it's
to, too, two
I'm sure there are plenty more....
One that often confused me was when to use who and whom - sometimes it sounds right, but is grammatically wrong and vice versa. If I'm unsure now, I replace the subject with male third person singular or third person plural and if it's Him or Them, then it should be whom (they all end in m).
For example: Who/Whom did we meet? - (it was him/them), so it should be Whom |
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By (user no longer on site)
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One that often confused me was when to use who and whom - sometimes it sounds right, but is grammatically wrong and vice versa. If I'm unsure now, I replace the subject with male third person singular or third person plural and if it's Him or Them, then it should be whom (they all end in m).
For example: Who/Whom did we meet? - (it was him/them), so it should be Whom"
Interesting, that one. According to the Oxford Dictionary, that is the correct formal grammar but as with all things in our language, it is subject to debate and seems to be changing now so that the word 'whom' is pretty much redundant. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Didn't realise they had two different meanings, In the case of swinging it's discreet."
Yep, I didn't realise this either until I joined Fab.
It is an educatuional site after all |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Some others for you then ;
Your, you're, yore, yaw
There, their, they're, theirs, there's
Whose, who's
Its, it's
to, too, two
I'm sure there are plenty more....
One that often confused me was when to use who and whom - sometimes it sounds right, but is grammatically wrong and vice versa. If I'm unsure now, I replace the subject with male third person singular or third person plural and if it's Him or Them, then it should be whom (they all end in m).
For example: Who/Whom did we meet? - (it was him/them), so it should be Whom"
Where, were, and we're |
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