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cubanlord
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Throw in a kiss for me and I will take back the insult.
**EDIT**
Before anyone gets too clever--we know who I meant the kiss to be from. |
Yeah...i got your kisss...for the boths of yous...here you go:
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cubanlord
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:15 am Post subject: |
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I guess I'm out of luck on the extra point, though. Ah well. Here's one:
Although he was not outgoing by nature, he had a very unique way of getting people to open up to him. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:16 am Post subject: |
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 actually your sentence is correct. It's a compound-complex sentence. (I don't like those people, because they're white and I'm a racist.) |
CRIKEY! My leet grammar skills took over as I was typing that sentence and ruined it by making it correct!
I meant to write:
I don't like those people, because it's white and I'm a racist.
Much better. Gonna go edit my previous post. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| daskalos wrote: |
I guess I'm out of luck on the extra point, though. Ah well. Here's one:
Although he was not outgoing by nature, he had a very unique way of getting people to open up to him. |
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AP reference (man i love that word tonight). we don't know who he is. man.......that's a shot in the dark i bet. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
Throw in a kiss for me and I will take back the insult.
**EDIT**
Before anyone gets too clever--we know who I meant the kiss to be from. |
Yeah...i got your kisss...for the boths of yous...here you go:
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Glad to see you knew I did mean Qinella. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
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| actually your sentence is correct. It's a compound-complex sentence. (I don't like those people, because they're white and I'm a racist.) |
CRIKEY! My leet grammar skills took over as I was typing that sentence and ruined it by making it correct!
I meant to write:
I don't like those people, because it's white and I'm a racist.
Much better. Gonna go edit my previous post. |
lol...still a compound complex. dude...quit with the hite and the cass.... |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| cubanlord wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
Throw in a kiss for me and I will take back the insult.
**EDIT**
Before anyone gets too clever--we know who I meant the kiss to be from. |
Yeah...i got your kisss...for the boths of yous...here you go:
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Glad to see you knew I did mean Qinella. |
Well...that was for Q and figured there was enough lovin to go around. Didn't want you to feel excluded from the party.  |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
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I guess I'm out of luck on the extra point, though. Ah well. Here's one:
Although he was not outgoing by nature, he had a very unique way of getting people to open up to him. |
Extra point: the allusion was to a Dylan Thomas poem that I love reading. You can love it, too, after clicking here.
As for your sentence, um... is it a trick question? I don't see any errors.
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This is a battle I used to have with the journalists working for me, and you're free to disagree, but ...
... with very few exceptions (another challenge for the forum, maybe?) unique shouldn't be modified, and certainly not by very, as it's difficult to imagine how something could be very "one of a kind." It's either unique, or it's rare. IMO. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
| cubanlord wrote: |
| actually your sentence is correct. It's a compound-complex sentence. (I don't like those people, because they're white and I'm a racist.) |
CRIKEY! My leet grammar skills took over as I was typing that sentence and ruined it by making it correct!
I meant to write:
I don't like those people, because it's white and I'm a racist.
Much better. Gonna go edit my previous post. |
lol...still a compound complex. dude...quit with the hite and the cass.... |
Oh lord, that's so irrelevant! What difference does it make? IT cannot refer to a group of people, regardless of the sentence structure.
If I take out the "and I'm a racist" and just make it a complex sentence, you're saying that changes the point I made?
Seriously man.. lay off the raw racoon hamburgers and BBQ dildos.  |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| cubanlord wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
Throw in a kiss for me and I will take back the insult.
**EDIT**
Before anyone gets too clever--we know who I meant the kiss to be from. |
Yeah...i got your kisss...for the boths of yous...here you go:
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Glad to see you knew I did mean Qinella. |
Dang dude, did you learn that joke from your students? What was it you said to someone in another thread ... hmm... ah yes, how absolutely cutting edge. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:30 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| cubanlord wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
| cubanlord wrote: |
| actually your sentence is correct. It's a compound-complex sentence. (I don't like those people, because they're white and I'm a racist.) |
CRIKEY! My leet grammar skills took over as I was typing that sentence and ruined it by making it correct!
I meant to write:
I don't like those people, because it's white and I'm a racist.
Much better. Gonna go edit my previous post. |
lol...still a compound complex. dude...quit with the hite and the cass.... |
Oh lord, that's so irrelevant! What difference does it make? IT cannot refer to a group of people, regardless of the sentence structure.
If I take out the "and I'm a racist" and just make it a complex sentence, you're saying that changes the point I made?
Seriously man.. lay off the raw racoon hamburgers and BBQ dildos. |
I have a feeling we can go round and round tonight. .......(if you want to read the following, translate it) pero me quiero ir y pasar tiempo con mi esposa (si sabes de lo que estoy hablando)....heheheheeh later gentlemen. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:32 am Post subject: |
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| daskalos wrote: |
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I guess I'm out of luck on the extra point, though. Ah well. Here's one:
Although he was not outgoing by nature, he had a very unique way of getting people to open up to him. |
Extra point: the allusion was to a Dylan Thomas poem that I love reading. You can love it, too, after clicking here.
As for your sentence, um... is it a trick question? I don't see any errors.
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This is a battle I used to have with the journalists working for me, and you're free to disagree, but ...
... with very few exceptions (another challenge for the forum, maybe?) unique shouldn't be modified, and certainly not by very, as it's difficult to imagine how something could be very "one of a kind." It's either unique, or it's rare. IMO. |
Oh, nice one. Really didn't even think of that. It reminds me of a time someone critiqued a poem for writing "utter solitude". (Yes, I know, and yes, it was crap.)
Hey, how many point do I have now? I really have to win this or my life will be incomplete. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| I have a feeling we can go round and round tonight. .......(if you want to read the following, translate it) pero me quiero ir y pasar tiempo con mi esposa (si sabes de lo que estoy hablando)....heheheheeh later gentlemen. |
Heck yeah, my two semesters in Spanish five years ago finally pay off!
Have fun with the lovely senora. Maybe tomorrow you can get back to me on whether or not "it" can refer to a group of people, or a group of anything for that matter. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:52 am Post subject: Re: The Grammar Game! |
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| Although she doesn't seem to be sick, the high fever is evident in Jane. |
You'd better write 'Almost she seems like sick of the evidence high fever is Jane.'
Just thought I'd make this grammar correction exercise more realistic.  |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| Should be "a high fever", as fever has not been mentioned before, meaning that the reference to fever has to use the general "a" not the specific "the". |
WRONG!()@*!()@*!)@(! HAHAHA..GOT ONE FOR ME. Whenever you are using a subordinate clause (in a complex sentence), the subject MUST come immediately after it.
Although she doesn't seem to be sick, the high fever is evident in Jane.
Corrected one: Although she doesn't seem to be sick, Jane evidently has a high fever.
You have an ambigious (sp?) pronoun reference in the dependent clause. It must be specified in the independent clause.
PHEW... enough for me. Ok....someone else. |
Actually it depends on the context around it. We don't know fever wasn't mentioned before. |
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