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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Nov 15, 2015 13:58:30 GMT -5
Oh man, the softball is in the air......... No one hit it did they. LOL
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Post by 36fan on Nov 16, 2015 11:58:43 GMT -5
see present saw past seen past participle (has,have,had) seen use with those 3 helping verbs You just hit one of my pet peeves. You didn't "seen it" - you "saw it" or "have seen" it!
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Post by 36fan on Nov 16, 2015 12:10:24 GMT -5
One of the best (and most time intensive) classes I had while in school was G205: Reporting in the GeoSciences. The instructor was tough, but good. Every week we had to either write a report, give a presentation over the report we wrote, or edit the report and reduce the words by 10% (or more). When you would get your report back, there would be an ink dot over every word where he had placed his pen over the top of the word and counted every word. He would also pull out a ruler and measure the margins. For the oral presentations, there would be tally marks at the bottom of the scoring sheet where he would count every "uh" or "um" and tell you the total at the end. I am still to do this day very cognizant of when I say "uh" or "um". It has rubbed off on my wife and daughter (12 yrs old) and they have become aware of other people's use of "uh" or "um". I've determined elementary school teachers are the worst. It has been brutal sitting through almost all of my kids' orientation nights. I have since moved on to the use of "like", and hammered my daughter on using "like" constantly. Now her friends drive her crazy with how much they say "like".
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Post by duff on Nov 16, 2015 19:02:46 GMT -5
At my work people really like to use "right". They use it as a question or statement. It drives me nuts when certain people use it due to the emphasis they place on it. Other people can use it and I hardly notice it.
Weird, right?
I know, right!
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