On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 14:10, Rick Stevens wrote: > > 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") > I just have to add one last thing. My grade ten english teacher taught me one thing that I'll never forget. Anytime someone said 'is when' he freaked out and corrected them that it should be 'occurs when'. I still remember this 19 years later. And I still quote it when people say it to me.
