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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 8:51:57 GMT 7
Ok I need some grammar clarification help please on how a comma is used.
So here's the example, which I'm quoting Never sure from the other forum.
Are you retired , Rex?
So I've noticed a lot of people using a comma before a name like that.
How are you, Kris?
Just like that.
Is this a correct use of a comma?
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Post by cc1 on Jul 11, 2015 8:56:09 GMT 7
In German not...their grammar rules are a pain in the ass
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 8:58:51 GMT 7
Maybe it's certain countries then that use it, CC?
Maybe it's certain countries that use it CC ?
See I think the second version is right, but maybe I'm wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 9:09:59 GMT 7
Imagine you are actually speaking the words CC, and every time you take a breath you stop for a second. Or if you are talking about a lot of things in one sentence and they need to be divided up for clarification. That is a comma. It can change the whole meaning of a sentence.. "Let's eat, Grandma" "Lets eat Grandma" See the second one looks like grandma is about to be eaten. I see the examples though. I get the pause, just like that. So how about this? How are you today, Monty? Is that right or wrong?
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Post by rubl on Jul 11, 2015 9:15:01 GMT 7
Although there are English teachers, and teachers of English, who try to convince people that there are rules and restrictions, on the use of commas that is, I'm not convinced.
Of course, if someone were to add a small gerbil like picture to the list of smiles, I'd be happy to use that instead.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 9:49:59 GMT 7
In German not...their grammar rules are a pain in the ass Don't worry CC, our grammar rules are confusing as well. Sometimes I'm not sure if I should commatize or if I am comatosed.
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Post by cc1 on Jul 11, 2015 9:54:08 GMT 7
In German not...their grammar rules are a pain in the ass Don't worry CC, our grammar rules are confusing as well. Sometimes I'm not sure if I should commatize or if I am comatosed. Due that you have lived in Germany aren't you confused about the der die das thing my granny hasn't got in 50 years...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 9:54:31 GMT 7
How Confusing is the English Language?
We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen? If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth? Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.
Some other reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English:
The bandage was wound around the wound. The farm was used to produce produce. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. We must polish the Polish furniture. He could lead if he would get the lead out. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. I did not object to the object. The insurance was invalid for the invalid. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. They were too close to the door to close it. The buck does funny things when the does are present. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. The wind was too strong to wind the sail. After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.
Some other examples of strange pronounciations come into the picture with: if you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England.
If we explore the paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wiseguy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. If Dad is Pop, how’s come Mom isn’t Mop?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 10:02:17 GMT 7
To be honest CC, I left Germany about 33 years ago, so most of what I learned has now been forgotten, no practice anymore. My German was passable but not fluent (but better than my Thai). If I listen to Germans speaking then some of the language does come back.
One problem that I had with the German language was that I initially learnt in a classroom but when I arrived to Berlin my pronunciation was hard to understand by the locals, as Berliners speak with a very different accent.
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Post by smokie36 on Jul 11, 2015 10:05:53 GMT 7
From the above please identify all off the adjectival clauses.
You will receive six of the best for every one you miss or get wrong.
Off you go my little squishy mangoes!
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Post by thaddeus on Jul 11, 2015 11:07:28 GMT 7
, is easy, ' is not.
But anyone who points out a ' mistake in usage should be shot on sight.
Now, please excuse me, I have to help my uncle jack off a horse.
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Post by rubl on Jul 11, 2015 18:08:40 GMT 7
, is easy, ' is not. But anyone who points out a ' mistake in usage should be shot on sight. Now, please excuse me, I have to help my uncle jack off a horse. I know a Milk Maid who Milked a Bull, With every stroke, A bucket Full "A Bucket full A bucket Full With every stroke a Bucket full I know a milk maid who milked a cow? The silly Lass she did not know how, fumbling and guessing she pulled wrong tit poor milk maid covered in sh and so on.
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Post by patsycat on Jul 11, 2015 19:29:36 GMT 7
I am a spelling ogre, grammer goes out the windy. Being ridiculed on fussybook by my bestest friend because i spelt his name wrong is so humiliating.
I may have to commit the ultimate - and i have been told by the friend - listen to Justin Bieber music for two hours.
I clap my hands towards the people on any forum for whom the English is not their mother tongue. They usually do it better than us Anglophones. I can't see me lasting five minutes on a French Forum, even though i speak the language fluently. The writing is shit.
But hopefully they, like here, will help me along with me grammer.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 22:17:59 GMT 7
If you can read this really fast without getting tongue tied, you're a genius,
EYE, YAM, STEW, PEED.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 23:19:26 GMT 7
Say 'far canal' five times really fast first.
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