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Lunar Groove Gardener
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Duly melted.
There's lots of native speakers with subject verb agreement issues too. |
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crossmr
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Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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machoman
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:46 am Post subject: |
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| Privateer wrote: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
| I'm surprised how many people still use "everyday" when they mean "every day." |
I believe that "every day" and "everyday" are both valid, but with different meanings. To me, "every day" is and adverbial phrase showing the frequency of an action/occurrence, and "everyday" is an adjective (as in, "Cleaning your hair is an everyday activity"). I could be wrong, but this is just what I think. |
Seeing 'everyday' when it should be 'every day' makes me loose my mind! |
that one drives me a little crazy. was that intentional? |
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zenbone
Joined: 26 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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| me fail English... that's unpossible! |
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murmanjake
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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I think he was sorta correct.
My original usage referred to the word, "advise."
In that case, being as I'm referring to it as a word, not using it as a verb, wouldn't it in fact be a noun?
An aside nonetheless. Not to mention that I shoulda put it in quotation marks as well.
I kinda hoped this thread would degenarate into a buncha englishee teechers being sooper ironic. |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| murmanjake wrote: |
I think he was sorta correct.
My original usage referred to the word, "advise."
In that case, being as I'm referring to it as a word, not using it as a verb, wouldn't it in fact be a noun?
An aside nonetheless. Not to mention that I shoulda put it in quotation marks as well.
I kinda hoped this thread would degenarate into a buncha englishee teechers being sooper ironic. |
No, you're not changing its part of speech by doing that. Saying "I like the word "eat"", doesn't make "eat" a noun. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| machoman wrote: |
| Privateer wrote: |
| tatertot wrote: |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
| I'm surprised how many people still use "everyday" when they mean "every day." |
I believe that "every day" and "everyday" are both valid, but with different meanings. To me, "every day" is and adverbial phrase showing the frequency of an action/occurrence, and "everyday" is an adjective (as in, "Cleaning your hair is an everyday activity"). I could be wrong, but this is just what I think. |
Seeing 'everyday' when it should be 'every day' makes me loose my mind! |
that one drives me a little crazy. was that intentional? |
What moost I do to convince you it was? |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| crossmr wrote: |
| murmanjake wrote: |
I think he was sorta correct.
My original usage referred to the word, "advise."
In that case, being as I'm referring to it as a word, not using it as a verb, wouldn't it in fact be a noun?
An aside nonetheless. Not to mention that I shoulda put it in quotation marks as well.
I kinda hoped this thread would degenarate into a buncha englishee teechers being sooper ironic. |
No, you're not changing its part of speech by doing that. Saying "I like the word "eat"", doesn't make "eat" a noun. |
I know what he means. If you say "Eat" is not a noun, in this case, since he is referring to the word "eat", and words are nouns................oh brother! |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| murmanjake wrote: |
I think he was sorta correct.
My original usage referred to the word, "advise."
In that case, being as I'm referring to it as a word, not using it as a verb, wouldn't it in fact be a noun? |
The only problem with that logic is that it is now impossible to say "The word "run" is a verb." or ""Funny" is an adjective." Unless used with the qualifier: "In it's usual context." in which case things are getting far too wordy and obnoxious. |
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warren pease
Joined: 12 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:48 am Post subject: |
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| crossmr wrote: |
| murmanjake wrote: |
I think he was sorta correct.
My original usage referred to the word, "advise."
In that case, being as I'm referring to it as a word, not using it as a verb, wouldn't it in fact be a noun?
An aside nonetheless. Not to mention that I shoulda put it in quotation marks as well.
I kinda hoped this thread would degenarate into a buncha englishee teechers being sooper ironic. |
No, you're not changing its part of speech by doing that. Saying "I like the word "eat"", doesn't make "eat" a noun. |
incorrect, please try again |
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Yahowho
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| Nothing is for free. |
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