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[Bamby]

[spiral78]

I don't care about him losing patience. I'm beginning to lose my patient. It seems that this topic drift into teaching "phrase". I don't need NO one teaching me about simple phrases.

Sorry, but I really don't think you're in a position to criticize the language usage of other posters...

[MO39]

The first useful thing I learned when first toddling off to university many years ago was that the beginning of wisdom is realizing how little you know and that the truly wise person is never afraid to admit when she or he is wrong. This also applies to good teachers - when they don't know the answer to a student's question, instead of giving the wrong answer over and over again (much like Bamby, I fear), they say they'll look it up and report back to class the next day with the correct answer.

I don't think that Bamby is a troll, but what on earth is he (or she)?

[Bamby]

[Bamby]

[spiral78]

There is no time limit for responses here.

Regardless of your correctness about the original post, your later language usage indicates that you could use some English language help.

Further, the expletives you've chosen to use on the thread are considered highly rude in the context.

[Henry_Cowell]

Perhaps "Bamby" can give us her/his own definitions for phrase and clause.

Also...

http://marksesl.com/Grammar/aren%27t.html

The contraction for "are not" is usually used in questions like: "Aren't I going with you?" However, "am" is the proper be-verb to be used with the pronoun "I": "I am going with you." The technically ungrammatical usage of "aren't" in questions where "I" is the subject can be considered a "forced" mistake, because there is no good grammatically correct alternative. There is no contraction for "am not;" we don't say "Amn't I going ... ?," and the uncontracted form, "Am I not going with you?," sounds so formal that it is not practical in most situations. Consequently, even though "aren't I" is technically ungrammatical, and can sound a bit jarring to the ear, it is considered correct in normal conversational speech.

Additional note:
Michael Swan: Practical English Usage

'Am not' is normally only contracted in questions to 'aren't'.
The question tag for 'I am' is 'aren't I'? ('I'm late, aren't I?')

I'll take Swan over "Bamby" any day.

[Bamby]

[Bamby]

[spiral78]

Teaching qualifications include the ability to work with others, both students and collegues, by definition.

A quality not in evidence in Bamby's posts.

It's pretty hypocritical to slam what you consider the mistakes of others when your own mistakes on the same threads are far more egregious than the original 'error' in question.

Before you take a moment to consider which curse words you want to aim at me in your next post, let me tell you to save your time - I'm out of this thread.

But I've been around on Dave's for over 10 years now. Believe me, we don't need Bamby's 'wisdom' to make it here And I'll be very much around on other threads, as always.

[Bamby]

[spiral78]

Thanks for the apology, but you really haven't the power to hurt my feelings in the least. That wasn't my feeling at all.

Just grateful that I am out of the realm of having to work with anyone with such a chip on his/her shoulder.

It's really not cool to curse at colleagues and peers, nor to slam the grammar questions of others when your own usage in the process is highly questionable.

[Henry_Cowell]

[Mr. Kalgukshi]

Let's quickly get back to discussing the message and not the messenger. If not, there will be sanctions. Future personal attack on this thread will see the responsible member(s) taking a long (possibly permanent) vacation without pay.

Please notify the Mod Team of all inappropriate postings.

[Bamby]