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Velociraptor
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posted 01-14-2000 08:15 PM     Profile for Velociraptor   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Some people posting here don't look like they scored very high in English essay writing or anything, but at least make your posts easy to read!

DO NOT write 70 lines of post with no spaces or paragraphs, no one will like to read it cuz it gives them a headache.

Write your posts in short easily digestable paragraphs so other people will read what you have to say, see my example? I have cut my post into several paragraphs easy to read.


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Robbster
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posted 01-14-2000 10:35 PM     Profile for Robbster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Apparently, You weren't so great in English yourself. The sentence structure of your first paragraph is poor. In your second paragraph, a comma between the words "say" and "see" is a poor choice. A semicolon would of been a wiser decision.
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calvinman
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posted 01-14-2000 10:45 PM     Profile for calvinman   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
He does make a good point though
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KMHPaladin
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posted 01-14-2000 10:50 PM     Profile for KMHPaladin   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Actually, if we're going to be anal retentive that was his third paragraph.

I'm no English professor, but I do make an attempt to skim over my messages prior to pressing "Submit Reply" and break up long posts with new paragraphs. I think that some people could do to listen to Raptor.

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English Teacher
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posted 01-14-2000 11:24 PM       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
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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posted 01-14-2000 11:30 PM       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
A certain Kurt Plummer comes to mind.
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SGAV8R
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posted 01-15-2000 01:30 AM     Profile for SGAV8R   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
English teacher, I'm afraid I'll have to correct you on the difference between ALOT & A LOT. ALOT is used in a quantitative sense, as in, ALOT of people. A LOT is used in a descriptive sense, when you're talking about say, a parking LOT. That's a lot where you can park your car.

In the English language, there IS such a word as ALOT.

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posted 01-15-2000 09:11 AM       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
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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Snake Eyes
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posted 01-15-2000 09:14 AM     Profile for Snake Eyes   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Give me a break...
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SGAV8R
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posted 01-15-2000 09:50 AM     Profile for SGAV8R   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Hmmmm, yes, I think u may be right there English Teacher Hehehe, looks like I was mistaken there. Funnily enough, I've used that term for my O Level & A Level English papers without any problems. Perhaps the markers @ Cambridge were too sleepy then

Thanks for the heads up

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posted 01-15-2000 09:55 AM       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
wah lan ehh.. wat u all talking..
alot or a lot the point is understood lah

jf-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     Profile for leafer   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
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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