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09-26-2016, 10:07 AM
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#101 | | I subscribe to the Fight Club ONLY
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Originally Posted by MG1  Now there's another one............
Sometimes I wonder if people's English are really that bad.
Sometimes I wonder if people's English is really that bad.
I always get confused on that one. Is it plural because of "people's"? Or, is it singular because of the "English"? Or, People as a singular entity....... | 100% certain that the correct version is: Quote: |
Sometimes I wonder if people's English is really that bad.
| If you break the sentence down into its core parts, it is really simple to see.
1) For our linguistic analysis, we can basically ignore the first bit up to the "if" portion, so the sentence becomes: Quote: |
People's English is really that bad.
| 2) But in this case, "People's" really serves as an adjective, so it doesn't have a role in determining what conjugation the verb uses. This means the portion to consider becomes: Quote: |
English is really that bad.
| 3) The noun "English" means we use the "is" form of the verb "to be". So Quote: |
Sometimes I wonder if people's English is really that bad.
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09-26-2016, 03:34 PM
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#102 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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Originally Posted by dbaz im starting to think mg1 was once an english teacher but got in trouble for banging the students | College prof, ftmfw!
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06-17-2018, 11:41 AM
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#103 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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Needs a bump every now and then. I figure it’s about that time.
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"there but for the grace of god go I"
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Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
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Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
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12-04-2018, 07:57 PM
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#104 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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It's anyway, not anyways...............
Anyways is used often here in the wet coast, but it seems it has spread around the world. Slang is a bitch, gulolol.
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Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
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09-06-2022, 01:58 AM
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#105 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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Just found this thread................. again.
When to use, "me or, I".
Mike and me went to the Canucks game last night.
Mike and I went to the Canucks game last night.
Bob went with Nancy and me to the game last night.
Bob went with Nancy and I to the game last night.
It's pretty simple. Just remove the other person(s) from the sentence and it'll make sense.
Bob went with me to the game last night.
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Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
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09-06-2022, 07:22 AM
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#106 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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ME AND BOB! ME AND BOB!!!!!!!!!! a la la la la, i cant hear you professor
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09-06-2022, 08:58 AM
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#107 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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Clam down, big boy…………..
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"there but for the grace of god go I"
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Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
| YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
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