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Oct 6, 2002 21:19:01 GMT -5
Post by scriptfox on Oct 6, 2002 21:19:01 GMT -5
While reading an episode in my latest series in the NT, I came across a line that made me cringe. I double-checked to make sure I had actually written it that way, and I had:
Kallie's witch hat was drooped over to one side.
ARGH! The only thing that kept me from dying of sheer embarrassment was that a couple of my friends couldn't spot the error. How about you?
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Oct 6, 2002 23:31:42 GMT -5
Post by althechia on Oct 6, 2002 23:31:42 GMT -5
Aww, I don't see anything wrong with it! Besides, I've made far worse grammatical errors!...I misspelled something, didn't I?...
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Oct 6, 2002 23:34:42 GMT -5
Post by L on Oct 6, 2002 23:34:42 GMT -5
I think you can't put 'was drooped'. It's just 'drooped'.
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Oct 7, 2002 15:48:24 GMT -5
Post by scriptfox on Oct 7, 2002 15:48:24 GMT -5
Exactly, Shidi. "was" is a linking verb, which means that what follows should be an adjective, aka
"hat was droopy"
or perhaps
"hat was drooping"
Another way to "solve" the problem is to get rid of the was altogether...
"hat drooped"
but "drooped" is a verb, and so is "was" and they just do NOT mix.... except in regular conversation, where this sort of thing happens all the time, hehe.
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Oct 7, 2002 18:13:09 GMT -5
Post by epk on Oct 7, 2002 18:13:09 GMT -5
Ahh, I have those cringe lines all the time. Like in one of my NP-Making articles... ...that's 3,500 NP! Do that for ten days straight: 350,000 NP! Eh, that was a Math Error more then a Grammatical Error, but still... And speaking of your error - I'm with al. It isn't very easy to see. And I've made far worse grammatical errors also as I *sorta* pointed out. That's not going to hurt anything. Some people may comment, but I wouldn't worry from experience. (Talking to a better author about experience - heh.) I'll be quiet now.
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Oct 7, 2002 18:29:35 GMT -5
Post by starhamster on Oct 7, 2002 18:29:35 GMT -5
Arg, I hate grammar errors... it's probably one of my few pet peeves. Grammar checkers on Microsoft Word usually don't help me much either, they only check for the most basic of things but still catch me on usage of "that" and "which." *Shrugs* I never can tell the difference.
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Oct 7, 2002 21:07:13 GMT -5
Post by scriptfox on Oct 7, 2002 21:07:13 GMT -5
Another fun one is sentence structure. I'm very fond of stringing things together. LOL, to paraphrase Will Rogers, "I never met a comma I didn't like"
(Until proofreading time of course.)
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Oct 7, 2002 21:14:29 GMT -5
Post by Tdyans on Oct 7, 2002 21:14:29 GMT -5
Hrm, me too. Love those long, winding sentences...
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Oct 8, 2002 7:28:36 GMT -5
Post by Kiddo on Oct 8, 2002 7:28:36 GMT -5
Don't worry bout it... no one here can compare to the grammer errors I make on a regular basis. I get at least one neomail a week correcting me. And to top it all off, I get this horribly evil teacher who decides to teach my class "grammer". Of course, what she teaches us is totally ridiculous and will make very bad writing if I use it... There are two types of writting in this world, her's, and everyone elses... Yep, my education stinks.
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Oct 8, 2002 23:27:36 GMT -5
Post by Gelquie on Oct 8, 2002 23:27:36 GMT -5
I make grammical errors sometimes, so don't be embarrased, even though in one of my stories, The Chia Lupe, it was neopets fault for this one.
Instead of " 'Except I had made a friend.' He told her the story", they only put in " 'Except I had made a friend.' " So the next line made absolutaly NO sense!
Other than that, all my fault.
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Oct 9, 2002 1:28:51 GMT -5
Post by sara on Oct 9, 2002 1:28:51 GMT -5
Well, I am not pure from grammatical and spelling error. I mentioned on another post I believe the annoying tendency of spellcheckers to think words like "jhudora" and "tyrannia" are misspelled. Get a spellchecker with an editable dictionary.
In any case, this year my English class is appropriately called "World Literature". Well, not the 'World' part, but everything we do is reading literature, talking about literature, and writing about literature ... not bad actually.
But I don't mind grammer lessons either - just watch me diagram a sentence!
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Oct 13, 2002 11:10:39 GMT -5
Post by Leb on Oct 13, 2002 11:10:39 GMT -5
I know grammar pretty well, but I always do badly in it during English class because I mostly know all the rules but don't know the proper names for them. Past participle? Future tense? It goes in one ear and out the other.
Spelling and punctuation errors happen to everybody, and in my last article I believe I spelled "Asia" as "Aisa." That word always messes me up!
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Oct 13, 2002 11:40:31 GMT -5
Post by starhamster on Oct 13, 2002 11:40:31 GMT -5
*Sings* Ohhh.... the Semicolon is my friend! (cha cha cha) and he can be, he can be, he can be, your friend -- Too! *Grins* Sorry, it's a long-running joke from English class. I love semicolons, though I really should cut back on them. There's just something satisfying about long sentences
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Oct 19, 2002 17:35:24 GMT -5
Post by Leb on Oct 19, 2002 17:35:24 GMT -5
Ja. I love Latin because you can string a sentence any way you want: backwards, forwards, whatever, as long as you make clear a few things. Everyone has a favorite punctuation mark: ; , . ? ' " \ { ) ^ ! are just a few. My personal favorite is the asterisk, *, even though I'm not entirely sure it's a punctuation mark as much as an ASCII symbol....
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Oct 21, 2002 4:43:28 GMT -5
Post by twayblade807 on Oct 21, 2002 4:43:28 GMT -5
When I first looked at your post, Scriptfox, I thought "Huh..?" But then when I thought a bit, I decided I agreed with Shidi about the 'was drooped' and 'drooped' thing. 'Was drooped' just doesn't sound right...after you've thought about it for a while, that is
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