matt (wayfast84)
 

in a post, one that i didn't want to hijack because of the subject matter, you responded: "Couldn't of said it better myself."

it's a good response. however, it would be "couldn't've said", because what you are doing is making a contraction of three words: could not have. it's perfectly legal in english to make it like that, but you have to use the proper phrase. if you plan on going to college or technical school, then you'll likely take the SATs. that is a question on the test.

in one part, they ask you to identify problems or errors with sentences and, of the possible responses, one of them is "nothing wrong with this sentence (paraphrased)". they present a sentence comparable to the way you provided your response to the thread, and then provide four answers and the last one is "nothing wrong". hopefully, now you will get that question correct on the SATs, should you take them. if not, perhaps i won't see you making that mistake again? :mrgreen:

i am in no way flaming you or attacking you personally. this is an attempt to improve your written language skills. if it was in any other thread, i probably would've hijacked it, but the dude is feeling bad enough as it is without having someone appear to not be paying attention to his thread and hijacking it with something else instead.

p.s. i make mistakes when typing sometimes, too. i am far from perfect.

Yeah I know I suck at english..and it's weird because my mom teaches english at rutgers and middle sex county college...shes also a published author...I basically try my hardest with spelling and grammer but I just suck..

The goes out to Alex (TransAm4life) also... good looking out.(And there I mean saying "I could care less" when what one means is "I COULDN'T care less)

kasey, i don't believe that was english? maybe it was midget speak

some people also confuse THERE and THEIR....

but why create a whole thread for this stuff?

actually people confuse "there," "their" and "they're."

JM, Alex and other people (not picking on him just he comes to mind) commonly hear something that they do not care about, and say "I could care less" when they really mean "I couldn't care less"... saying "I could care less" means that you actually DO care so there is an amount of caring that could be lost... make sense?

Casey: are you gonna be a english teacher or some thing? maybe for 1st grade or some thing?

It's Kasey and no, but it gets me that the collective brain of society is rotting away. Trying to do my little part to help... plus my Grandma was an english teacher and my school district (Tenafly) is one of the best in the state so it's just always irked me when people make these little mistakes like mixing up there their and they're... hell, I just had a little talk with my dad about it because he mixed a couple up :lol:

ohhhh i get it now...yes i do understand the could/couldnt...you just confused me at first lol

and in general.....yes there and their...............even where and were...even though they're two different words
edit: don't forget they're!!!



and for the sake of all things holy, once and for all....it's spelled "definitely"

However, their, there, and they're all sound the same when speaking. But where, were, and we're are all different sounding.


When i type fast, a lot of times I put letters too early in the word like "typign" instead of "typing" or "liek" istead of "like", and sometimes I type words and they end up like "event hough" instead of "even though". 99% of my mistakes are because i never learned proper typing skills and I'm all over the keyboard with both hands wherever I want. lol

I do that too... but this was directed at using the correct form of the word.

I probably have typed "liek" MORE than "like" :lol:

Your point exactly? :rofl:

haha Kasey beat me to it :lol: I can't stand when people say "I could care less"

~Ted

Kasey..see, i can spell, i just dont pay attention to my typing so sometimes i skip letters or rearrange them. its all good though. In my head i'm right and everyone knows what i mean. Oh and i dont like to capitalize "i" all the time because it takes too much effort.

You know you shouldn't refer to those voices as "everyone"... :razz:

"The voices in my head tell me not to listen to the voices in my head..what should i do...AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Im sure I got some pills that will help yah with that :mrgreen:

I saw that error too, Jim... I just didnt feel like saying anything at the time. :lol:

Oh and Jim, in the English language, its always a good idea to capitalize the first letter of each sentence. ;)

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:stupid: matt maybe you should have your mom tutor you a bit. with the SAT coming around in a couple years you should start getting serious about getting into college.

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Brandon you really have way too much free time. Go read a book or something :lol:

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Kids!:scratch:

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