|
» GC Stats |
Members: 329,734
Threads: 115,667
Posts: 2,205,065
|
| Welcome to our newest member, zbryanyadextoz7 |
|
 |
|
08-28-2008, 04:28 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Land of Chaos
Posts: 9,265
|
|
|
Grammar Pet Peeves
This drives me crazy. The proper use of the possessive form of "it".
The possessive form of "it" is "its". No apostrophe.
EXAMPLE - "Gamma Phi Beta can be proud of its 134 year history."
"It's" is short for "it is".
EXAMPLE - "It's not how you start, it's how you finish."
Thank you. I feel much better now.
Do you have any other grammatical pet peeves?
__________________
Gamma Phi Beta
Courtesy is owed, respect is earned, love is given.
Proud daughter AND mother of a Gamma Phi. 3 generations of love, labor, learning and loyalty.
|
08-28-2008, 04:30 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: TN
Posts: 7,484
|
|
|
they're....their.....there
__________________
XΩ Alumna --45 Year member
ΦΑΘ Alumna
ΚΔΕ Alumna
|
08-28-2008, 04:32 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 12,783
|
|
|
your and you're
I admit that I ALWAYS have to think twice before I type its and it's.
|
08-28-2008, 04:32 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: right here
Posts: 2,055
|
|
|
where and wear
They're, there, and their
basically all homonyms that get confused
I mentioned somewhere else about the "dear meat" post I saw on another board. They meant "deer meat". the wrong homonym gives it a totally different meaning.
__________________
So I enter that I may grow in knowledge, wisdom and love.
So I depart that I may now better serve my fellow man, my country & God.
|
08-28-2008, 04:33 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: NooYawk
Posts: 5,478
|
|
|
Work-related issue:
Correct: non-profit
Correct: not-for-profit
INCORRECT: non-for-profit
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
__________________
ONE LOVE, For All My Life
Talented, tested, tenacious, and true...
A woman of diversity through and through.
|
08-28-2008, 04:36 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 12,783
|
|
|
Did you know that nonprofit is also correct? It took me a while to get used to it, but one of my agency's "union" type orgs doesn't hyphenate.
|
08-28-2008, 04:37 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 18,137
|
|
|
*People confusing to/too. Seriously.
*This isn't so much a grammatical thing, but the word is TONIGHT. It is not TONITE.
__________________
"Remember that apathy has no place in our Sorority." - Kelly Jo Karnes, Pi
Lakers Nation.
|
08-28-2008, 04:37 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: StL
Posts: 945
|
|
|
Weary being used in exchange for either wary or leery. In the past few years I've noticed, especially online, that the three are used interchangeably. Weary means something else entirely!!
__________________
Gamma Phi Beta
To inspire the highest type of womanhood.
|
08-28-2008, 04:40 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: TN
Posts: 7,484
|
|
|
lose & loose
__________________
XΩ Alumna --45 Year member
ΦΑΘ Alumna
ΚΔΕ Alumna
|
08-28-2008, 04:41 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Bowden Nation
Posts: 333
|
|
|
allowed & aloud
|
08-28-2008, 04:43 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 732
|
|
|
Then and Than
|
08-28-2008, 04:45 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2002
Location: VA, VA, wooooo!!!!
Posts: 5,935
|
|
|
pass and past.
Bernie Mac past away. INCORRECT
Bernie Mac passed away. CORRECT
__________________
Easy. You root against Duke, for that program and its head coach are -
and we don't think we're in any way exaggerating here - the epitome of all that is evil.
--Seth Emerson, The Albany Herald
|
08-28-2008, 04:49 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 12,783
|
|
|
Comma whoredom.
Read your sentence out loud. If you didn't pause there, take out the commas. Idiots.
ETA: Dammit I just made myself paranoid about whether that comma belongs there.
|
08-28-2008, 04:52 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Land of Chaos
Posts: 9,265
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Senusret I
Comma whoredom.
Read your sentence out loud. If you didn't pause there, take out the commas. Idiots.
ETA: Dammit I just made myself paranoid about whether that comma belongs there.
|
lol - (and it's "damn it"  ) YES - there are far too many comma-crazed writers out there.
eta - although maybe you used "dammit" in a colloquial sense. If so, I apologize.
I also dislike the mailboxes that say "The Brown's". Again with the apostrophe! What is it The Brown owns? Do you perhaps mean The Browns, as in more than one Brown?
__________________
Gamma Phi Beta
Courtesy is owed, respect is earned, love is given.
Proud daughter AND mother of a Gamma Phi. 3 generations of love, labor, learning and loyalty.
Last edited by SWTXBelle; 08-28-2008 at 05:03 PM.
|
08-28-2008, 05:02 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: NooYawk
Posts: 5,478
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Senusret I
Did you know that nonprofit is also correct? It took me a while to get used to it, but one of my agency's "union" type orgs doesn't hyphenate.
|
Yep - that's no problem. I used the hyphens for clarity among the words. Non-for-profit makes me want to do bad things.
__________________
ONE LOVE, For All My Life
Talented, tested, tenacious, and true...
A woman of diversity through and through.
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
Linear Mode
