I can't take it anymore. Part 2 (sentence, grammar, quote)
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I used to have...well, an insane parent (seriously, there is paperwork on her somewhere) of a student. The woman gave me grief all year long.
One time I sent a completed and scored test home and received a note back from her on the test that read, "There is an arrow in your addition." She had drawn an arrow pointing to the score. I was flummoxed as to what she meant. I showed it to my friend, the English teacher on my team, and she just shook her head in disgust and said, "She meant error. It's a common mistake." I busted up laughing.
She used an arrow to point out my "arrow".
By the way, there was no "arrow" in my addition. I checked it several times, and it was right on target.
Just the other day, on the website for Business Week magazine, one of the articles substituted the word "vice" for the word that would have been correct in the context of the sentence, namely "vise". The writer stated something about a person's head being "caught in a vice". No, the article was not discussing illicit activities!
Did I send them a correction?
You bet I did!
Last edited by Retriever; 01-16-2015 at 09:58 AM..
'55mph, unless your a wreck less idiot, then go ahead and do 65'
whole thing is police and authority figures overstepping there boundaries because are we suppose to call the police everytime we see a child riding a bike or walking down the street? This cuddling is getting out of hand.
'55mph, unless your a wreck less idiot, then go ahead and do 65'
whole thing is police and authority figures overstepping there boundaries because are we suppose to call the police everytime we see a child riding a bike or walking down the street? This cuddling is getting out of hand.
Well, if you drive 65 when you should be doing 55, you won't be wreck less for long, and you may never be reckless again if the wreck is bad enough.
"When a friend of ours was born for no apparent reason a nurse who assisted I'm the birth jumped out the window on her delivery room floor."
The "I'm" for "in" auto-correct isn't the problem here. (edit to add: altho it offers support for the argument that smartphones best be kept away from some people.)
The claim that a nurse jumped out a window doesn't faze me in the least.
It's the dang dangler.
And the unclear possessive pronoun. Curious grammar police want to know: whose delivery room floor, the friend's or the nurse's?
Last edited by biscuitmom; 01-16-2015 at 11:59 PM..
"When a friend of ours was born for no apparent reason a nurse who assisted I'm the birth jumped out the window on her delivery room floor."
The "I'm" for "in" auto-correct isn't the problem here. (edit to add: altho it offers support for the argument that smartphones best be kept away from some people.)
The claim that a nurse jumped out a window doesn't faze me in the least.
It's the dang dangler.
And the unclear possessive pronoun. Curious grammar police want to know: whose delivery room floor, the friend's or the nurse's?
I find this the funnier part.
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