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yddet12 said:
In general, affect is a verb and effect is a noun.

Examples:

Eating and sleeping affects your health.

Happiness is an effect of listening to good speakers.

Now, for a more challenging topic: "toward" vs. "towards"--"toward" is typically used more in American English, while "towards" is used more in British english.

Additionally, avoid ending sentences with prepositions. For example:

Where did a topic like that come from? -- incorrect

From where did a topic like that come? -- correct
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Thanks, I'd hate to caught in untoward behavior.

It's a guy's first day at Harvard and he approches a fella and asks "Would you tell me where the library's at?"

The fella gets all snotty and says "Here at Harvard we never end a sentence with a preposition."

So the guys says "I'm sorry, let me rephrase that. Where's the library at, asshole?"
 
yddet12 said:
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Additionally, avoid ending sentences with prepositions. For example:

Where did a topic like that come from? -- incorrect

From where did a topic like that come? -- correct
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Tom Brennan said:
Thanks, I'd hate to caught in untoward behavior.

It's a guy's first day at Harvard and he approches a fella and asks "Would you tell me where the library's at?"

The fella gets all snotty and says "Here at Harvard we never end a sentence with a preposition."

So the guys says "I'm sorry, let me rephrase that. Where's the library at, asshole?"
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:lmao: :lmao:

Actually, the "don't end a sentence with a preposition" isn't really followed in Standard American English anymore, since it results in unnecessarily awkward sentence constructions.
 
Tom Brennan said:
Thanks, I'd hate to caught in untoward behavior.

It's a guy's first day at Harvard and he approches a fella and asks "Would you tell me where the library's at?"

The fella gets all snotty and says "Here at Harvard we never end a sentence with a preposition."

So the guys says "I'm sorry, let me rephrase that. Where's the library at, asshole?"
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I find myself constantly annoyed by misuses of you;your;you're; there; they're; their; to; too and it's; its. I usually keep my misgivings to myself, as pointing it out just ticks people off. I'm glad when it gets brought up as a separate discussion such as this in the hope that there might be an increased awareness without my having played grammar or syntax policeman.

There are a few "peeves" I have for particular missteps, i.e. the often used "I could care less" as above. To say the phrase that way is completely backward from its intended meaning and is illogical as a result.
For there to be any sense to be made of its usage it should properly be stated: "I could not care less". Yeah, I know, pointing this out just pisses folks off. That's why I usually just let it slide.
 
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tin_ear said:
I find myself constantly annoyed by misuses of you;your;you're; there; they're; their; to; too and it's; its. I usually keep my misgivings to myself, as pointing it out just ticks people off...
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Me, too. However, I usually keep my misgivings to myself because the older I get, the more of those "mistakes" I barely catch just before hitting "Submit Reply".
 
Mark W. said:
I once told a college English Professor the only reason the author wrote the book we were discussing was to make money not some silly esoteric improve the whole human race deep hidden meaning.

She asked me to leave. Which since I was paying to be there amused the hell out of me.
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I did something similar in a high school literature class once. Told Miss Elsie that the author wrote the story to entertain people. Found out real quick that there were some things about which Miss Elsie had no sense of humor.

She didn't kick me out of class, but I had to get a lot more creative about authors' reasons for writing stories. I still think I was right the first time.
 
This has to be the best FORUM ever on the net. You get help in Audio when needed, you can even put your 2 cents forward, and on top of that or is it 'it', you get free instructions in spelling and grammatical correctness. For lots of people on this forum, English are our second language, seriously.
Thanks.
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moinau said:
This has to be the best FORUM ever on the net. You get help in Audio when needed, you can even put your 2 cents forward, and on top of that or is it 'it', you get free instructions in spelling and grammatical correctness. For lots of people on this forum, English are our second language, seriously.
Thanks.
:music:
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moinau said:
...English are our second language...
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English "is" our second language. Singular.:D:thmbsp:

Glad to help! Believe it or not, a lot of us truly enjoy the language, and trying to learn those important little things that make such a difference.

Clay

(French, Russian, German, Spanish, and a little English.:D)
 
Fisherdude said:
English "is" our second language. Singular.:D:thmbsp:

Glad to help! Believe it or not, a lot of us truly enjoy the language, and trying to learn those important little things that make such a difference.

Clay

(French, Russian, German, Spanish, and a little English.:D)
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Thanks Clay. You say, French!!!
 
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