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Topic: Posting etiquette
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English Teacher
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posted 01-14-2000 11:24 PM
Common errors:"Alot" is not a word. Use "A lot". "I could care less" is incorrect. The expression is, "I could not care less". Truly a careless mistake. "Your" is possessive, as in "I am your master". "You're" is "you are", as in "You're nice". "There" usually refers to a location or direct object, "There is a plane". "They're" is "They are", "They're skilled pilots". "Their" is possessive, "I don't like their planes". "Looser" is spelled "loser". Use "a" when the following word begins with a consonant, "A plane is nice". Use "an" when the following word "sounds like" or begins with a vowel, "An agile fighter", or "An F-22". A good rule of thumb is to try to spell the following letter. "F" would be spelled something like "Eff", so "an" is used. "To" is used for a direct noun usually, "I went to the airshow". "Too" refers to excessive or very little quantities, "Too many missiles", "Too little time". To show possession for a noun, add an apostrophe "s", "John's gun". Some of these may not be entirely correct, and there are most definitely more.
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English Teacher
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posted 01-15-2000 09:11 AM
I searched for the word "alot" in the Merriam Webster Dictionary and it was not found. I looked in my Oxford dictionary and it was also not found. I searched in the "New Oxford Dictionary of English" and it was not found. I typed it in Microsoft Word '97 and it said it an incorrect word. I looked in the Encarta '98 dictionary and it was not found. I searched at Dictionary.com and it only found "ALOT" as an acronym meaning either "Adaptive Large Optics Technologies", "Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking", and "Allotment".I rest my case.
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singlish
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posted 01-15-2000 09:55 AM
wah lan ehh.. wat u all talking.. alot or a lot the point is understood lahjf-18 also can make english forum come out solid sia..
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leafer
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posted 01-15-2000 01:13 PM
Velociraptor,You have to realize that the Internet is available worldwide. I’m a foreign student myself, so English is not my first language. Run on sentence is a common mistake made by Asians because we don’t have punctuation in our languages. English grammar is very complicate subject; more so than math and anything else I have to study. And definitely harder than learning avionics in F4! But, this may surprise you. Most foreign student are better at writing essay than a lot of Americans in advance English classes (I’m not one of those, though). So many rules in English language and so many sims to play, sigh…  English teacher, I notice a lot of native English speaker say this, “he don’t got no …” or “it don’t matter”.
[This message has been edited by leafer (edited 01-15-2000).]
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