Rick Stevens wrote:
Thom Paine wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:11, John Meagher wrote:
Spelled "than" instead of "then", too. :-)
Also, the article "the" should be inserted between "then" and "solution"
-- still one more to go. This is getting tough..
Maybe 5 should be spelled out five, instead of the numeral.
And if we have to find five mistakes on every line, this will take a month of Sundays....
Yes. When I learned this there were two rules that were applied equally often:
Rule 1: The values zero through ten are to be spelled out Rule 2: Single-digit values (zero through nine) were to be spelled out
Of course, that was back in the stone age (the early 60s) when the rules seemed to mean something.
My current three primary pet peeves:
1. "Me and John...". Wrong! "John and I...". Correct.
2. The word is "separate", people. There is no such word as "seperate" in the English language.
3. Plurals do NOT use an apostrophe unless it is a plural possessive or possessive of a subject that ends in "s". Examples:
"dogs" means multiple instances (correct plural)
"dog's" means the object is owned by the dog (possessive)
"dogs'" means many dogs own the object (plural possessive)
"Rick Stevens' car" means my car (possessive of subject ending in "s")
Of course, this is all undeniably off topic. Class dismissed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I ain't got no need for no good grammar nohow. (Grandpa don't neither.)
