Anyway or AnywayS? — Page 3

Valentime's Day. A girl I used to work with always said that. She also said 'supposofbly'. Not really sure how to spell it.

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Are these friends speaking English as a second language? That would at least make a little more sense.

Valentime's Day is classic.

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Among my many grammatical pet peeves that drive my kids mad is the non-word 'irregardless'. 'Regardless' is a word, as is 'irrespective'.

I am also a stickler for proper pronoun use. For some reason, most of my in-laws use 'I' imporperly, as in "Do you want to go to the movies with Ellen and I". As you might expect, this filters down to my kids, and it drives me nuts.

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Great, like I didn't feel old already...

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YOU DO NOT END A SENTENCE ON A PREPOSITION.

Actually, most modern grammarians would disagree with you on that.

The only reason that was ever a rule in the first place is because one guy decided that English should be more like Latin, and since you can't end a sentence with a preposition in Latin, you shouldn't do it in English.

Nearly everybody now understands and agrees that it is ridiculous to hold a Germanic language to Latin standards, so ending a sentence with a preposition is no longer widely considered incorrect.

Until you know how your English teacher feels about it, though, I'd still avoid it in formal papers if you can. Or do your linguistics research and be ready to fight her on it.

My pet peeve is when people misuse "comprise." EVERYONE does it, and it drives me nuts, especially since all you have to do is open a dictionary to see if you're using it correctly!

For future reference: The whole comprises the parts. The parts do not comprise the whole. Nothing is EVER "comprised of" something else.

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Updated On: 7/30/09 at 01:57 PM

I wasn't taught about the proper use of "Someone and I" until the 7th grade... I felt robbed.

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Just reading that ripped out a little piece of my soul.

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No.

I never understand why people stubbornly insist they are right when a simple visit to a dictionary would prove otherwise. People would rather sound like morons than be proven wrong?

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Updated On: 7/30/09 at 03:27 PM

haha!

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I guess there was only room for one man.

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My cousin still insists that 'mostly' is not a word.

spiderdj - I didn't say that if you end a sentence with a preposition, it's correct no matter what. But it does not make the sentence automatically INcorrect.

The entire point of grammatical rules is to increase understanding and improve communication.

In your example, "I want to" is easily understood to mean "I want to go swimming." If there is a misunderstanding, it is not simply because the sentence ends in "to." Anyway, "I want to" is technically grammatically correct as a sentence, just unclear.

My point is that "Who do you want to go with?" is no more or less correct than "With whom do you want to go?"

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