I struggle with the verbs "awake", "waken", "woke". Sometimes I just take a wild stab.
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To and too get me. Too means also, but it also indicates excess.Too many two's will add up to an even number.
They're all shopping with their spouses at the mall, and it is from there that they want to flee.
This one always sounds wrong to me, even though it's correct. I would want to say hung.One of my favorites is hanged versus hung. I can't STAND it when they say "He was hung from that tree." Okay. But how did he die? When somebody's dangling dead at the end of a rope, they were hanged.
While "til" isn't a word, 'til is an acceptable abbreviation of until. Till apparently predates until, but always makes me think of a British cash register.I went thru a process per Mom vs mom. I decided to use "mom" when not referring to my own or someone else's mother. "Til" is not a word. "'Til" is. "Till is a word and apparently can be used instead of "'Til" (Till - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary).
And awoken. Just look at whether it's a verb or a descriptive.I struggle with the verbs "awake", "waken", "woke". Sometimes I just take a wild stab.
I love when you talk dirty.This one always sounds wrong to me, even though it's correct. I would want to say hung.
The Queen makes me think of that!While "til" isn't a word, 'til is an acceptable abbreviation of until. Till apparently predates until, but always makes me think of a British cash register.
Have an international friend and am often asked correct English grammar. Since one tends to become "comfortable" with incorrect usage, I have used this link to double ck correctness.
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and she spins circles around us!If it's Galli you're speaking of, I think she's smarter than us when it comes to correct English!
To keep effect and affect straight, I always think of "side effect," which I know is a noun, so the other is the verb. And I know effect can be a verb on some occasions, but I never have a problem with that.
I have huge problems with lie/lay. I have a cheat sheet next to my home computer for whenever I have to use one of them.
I've learned an awful lot reading sK as well as other authors. I used to use way too many commas (I'm still learning). That's a punctuation issue, though.I just rely on reading a lot,mostly SK,which helped keep me on the straight and narrow as far as grammar goes..wasn't he an English teacher?
Separate is tricky, too. The only reason I get that one right is because it was a pet peeve of a grade school teacher who drove into our little heads to remember "A RAT!". Afterward, how she prevented us from writing "desparate" I dunno.I always had problems with "cemetery" - would reflexively type cemetary - until I forced myself to remember that "all of the "e"s are dead." Whatever works!
Oh, ok cool! Thanx, Bev!Quotation marks vs italics is stylistic, not grammatical, in many cases.
I'm guilty of saying "Which do you like best?" when comparing two objects, when I should technically be saying "Which do you like better?" or perhaps better yet, "Which do you prefer?"
I often confuse when I should be capitalizing the first letters of Dad/dad, Mother/mother, etc.
I don't know if til is a word. I know 'until' is a word, and 'till' probably is, but not so sure about til. On a related note, when people say the time is "quarter til eight" I understand that they mean 7:45, but when they say "quarter of eight" I am not sure if this means 7:45 or 8:15.
I over-use hyphens!
Yep.To and too get me. Too means also, but it also indicates excess.