Category: Grammar

14
Oct

5 verb mistakes

I seen vs. I saw
Incorrect: “I seen the movie last week.”
Correct: “I saw the movie last week.”

2) I been vs. I have been
Incorrect: “I been there!”
Correct: “I have (I’ve) been there!”

3) I done vs. I did
Incorrect: “I done the homework.”
Correct:”I did the homework.”

4) We was vs. we were
Incorrect: “We was just about to start the reading.”
Correct: “We were just about to start the reading.”

5) I would of vs. I would have
Incorrect: “I would of gone with you if I knew.”
Correct:”I would have (would’ve) gone with you if I had known.”

Source: Grammarly

02
Oct

For grammar geeks: ‘Grammar Revolution’ the documentary

Prepositions, participles, who and whom and more are the focus of the new documentary “Grammar Revolution.” The film was made by two former teachers, David and Elizabeth O’Brien, and completed with a $22,000 Kickstarter campaign. It’s a feast for grammar geeks.

01
Oct

Old-school grammar trick

Start with the key elements: subject and verb. Simply put, the subject tells you what the sentence is about; the verb tells you what the subject is doing. If you’re feeling rusty about identifying the different parts of a sentence, you may want to do a quick review before you attempt to diagram.

Here’s how to draw a diagram for a simple subject and main verb:

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19
Sep

Informations & furnitures

Be very careful when using the following uncountable nouns, because they have no plural!

Ideas and experiences: advice, information, progress, news, luck, fun, work
Materials & substances: water, rice, cement, gold, milk
Weather words: weather, thunder, lightning, rain, snow
Groups or collections of things: furniture, equipment, rubbish, luggage
Other: accommodation, baggage, homework, knowledge, money, permission, research, traffic, travel

Only in plural: shorts, pants, pyjamas, glasses (for the eyes), binoculars, scissors, trousers.

Source: Cambridge Dictionaries

18
Sep

The word “irregardless”

Of course, there is such a word as irregardless!

In fact, it is a century-old colloquial word that means the same as irrespective and regardless, and it may have come about by some fusion or confusion of those two words. The use of irregardless is a common peeve among people who question illogical new words and phrases in English, but the word is not as bad as many people think. No English speaker who hears the word irregardless actually interprets it as meaning not without regard. We might find the word annoying, but we know exactly what the speaker means. And though irrespective and regardless have perhaps lost some ground since the arrival of irregardless, they are still widely used, and they prevail over irregardless by a large margin in edited publications.

Source: Grammarist