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Okay, sit up straight and pay attention ASF students. This thread is all about reliving those horror days....school.... aarrghhhhh.... :iamwithst

I've jotted down some quick notes on spelling. I'll post some info on punctuation down the track.

Please feel free to add contributions.

Remember those that contribute a rule or two will be exempt from having to spell correctly on this forum again ;)


Adding Suffixes (letters placed at the end of a word to make a new word eg:climb + 'ed' becomes climbed)
when a one-syllable word has two vowels (a,e,i,o,u), or ends in two consonants (the rest of the alphabet), just add the suffix.

sprain - sprained break - breakage
spear - speared hear - hearing

When a one-syllable word has only one vowel, double the final consonant.

scar - scarred star - starring
trek - trekking shop - shopping

Drop the 'e' to add 'ing'

if the word ends in a single 'e' then the 'e' is usuall dropped to add 'ing'

scare - scaring file - filing
lose - losing smile - smiling

Endings in 'able'

If the word is recognisable on its own, the ending will more often then not be 'able'

obtain - obtainable pay - payable
break - breakable afford - affordable

saying that, if the word is NOT recognisable on its own, the endings will be 'ible'

aud - audible poss- possible
terr - terrible elig - eligible
 
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Where were you when I needed an English teacher? about 1964.

A star in the sky I'll bet!
 
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sam76 said:
saying that, if the word is NOT recognisable on its own, the endings will be 'ible'

aud - audible poss- possible
terr - terrible elig - eligible
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What about:

t - table ? :rolleyes:

And one thing I see regularly on all forums:

lose = opposite of win
loose = opposite of tight

So you can't loose $1000!

GP
 
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lol. ;) I forgot to add - there are always exceptions to the rules!

eg i before e except after c.

except: either, height, leisure, their.
 
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sam76 said:
lol. ;) I forgot to add - there are always exceptions to the rules!

eg i before e except after c.

except: either, height, leisure, their.
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and: weird

which is.

Ghoti
 
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sam76 said:
Okay, sit up straight and pay attention ASF students. This thread is all about reliving those horror days....school.... aarrghhhhh.... :iamwithst

I've jotted down some quick notes on spelling. I'll post some info on punctuation down the track.

Please feel free to add contributions.

Remember those that contribute a rule or two will be exempt from having to spell correctly on this forum again ;)
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if the word ends in a single 'e' then the 'e' is usuall dropped to add 'ing'
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Never forgetting:

1. Any poster whose post correcting another poster's spelling or grammar contains any error whatsoever shall be consigned to subeditorial perdition.

2. All posts correcting spelling or grammar contain errors (unless they're posted by Me)

Ghoti
 
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The thing that bugs me most - inappropriate use of any of the following:

there/their/they're

Ugh!
 
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ghotib said:
Never forgetting:

1. Any poster whose post correcting another poster's spelling or grammar contains any error whatsoever shall be consigned to subeditorial perdition.

2. All posts correcting spelling or grammar contain errors (unless they're posted by Me)

Ghoti
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lol, touche Ghotib!
 
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doctorj said:
The thing that bugs me most - inappropriate use of any of the following:

there/their/they're

Ugh!
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How about your/you're? :D
 
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ok, some quick remarks regarding punctuation.

Check this out...

1 A woman, without her man, is nothing.
2 A woman: without her, man is nothing.

makes a difference, eh?

Comma ( , ) indicates a slight break in the sentence

semicolon ( ; ) indicates a more definite break then a comma

Colon ( : ) indicates a stronger breakthen a semicolon but a slightly weaker break then a full stop.

Full stop ( . ) I think we all know what one of these is :)
 
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sam76 said:
Colon ( : ) indicates a stronger breakthen a semicolon
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A semicolon is used to join two independant clauses while a colon is typically used with a dependant clause (although can also be used with independant clauses). Both are less of a break than a period, but a semicolon is really more of a break than a colon.

Example of a colon with dependant clause:

There's one certain thing that can be said about share trading: it's an easy way to lose money.

Example of a semicolon with independant clauses:

Share trading can be risky; I have a plan to minimize losses.

Oh... and perhaps we should also mention the difference between then and than. ;)

Cheers,
GP
 
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And then there's dependent (adjective) and dependant (noun)

Ghoti

Have I ever mentioned that I was a lead writer and editor in a previous life? It almost taught me humility :D
 
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Also note the difference between:

it's = (it is) eg It is a great day.

its = (belonging to) eg Its head is facing you.
 
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Joe Blow said:
How about your/you're? :D
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This deserves to be expanded on a little:

“You’re” is always a contraction of “you are.” If you’ve written “you’re,” try substituting “you are.”

If it doesn’t work, the word you want is“your.”
 
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ghotib said:
And then there's dependent (adjective) and dependant (noun)
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Good spot, Ghotib.

While not particularly relevant here, one that gets a lot of people is the difference between the verbs "to lay" and "to lie".

Past tense and past participle of lay is laid, while past tense of lie is lay and past participle is lain (then there's the form of to lie meaning to not tell the truth, where the past tense and past participle are both lied).

I've often seen people write "She laid on the bed", which she couldn't possibly do unless she was a hen (although of course she could get laid on the bed :D).

GP
 
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Fantastic---I'm going to give this link to the local school.
Might teach the teachers something.
 
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The one that gets me is:

"She went and had a good lay down".

"Because he was "tired and emotional" he needed to have a Bex and a good lay down".

These really upset me. Yes, I'm a complete pedant.

Another one is the use of "100 less flowers" instead of "100 fewer flowers"
"Fewer" should be used when referring to individual items, and "less" when referring to mass, i.e."there is less water in the pool than there was yesterday". For that matter you could say "there are fewer litres in the pool than yesterday".

This is a great thread, Joe. Let's hope we all learn something towards the better use of our language.

I have a young friend who teaches English in a Queensland public secondary school. She asked me for the definition of a verb, a noun, and an adjective. The notion of an adverb was completely foreign to her.

Julia :confused:
 
This is a pet hate of mine - people who use the apostrophe incorrectly - eg 'its' 'it's' etc.

But what really gets to me is the bogan (is that how you spell bogan :D )spelling we have these days of people's names - you know the type - they take a normal name and insert a y, or 'ee' - and then they get upset when you spell their name incorrectly. Usually you see these types of names when the police give a run down of the latest arrest for drugs kind of thing!

Kath and Kim used Eponee - get the drift?
 
Prospector said:
This is a pet hate of mine - people who use the apostrophe incorrectly - eg 'its' 'it's' etc.
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This is a pet hate of mine as well. It's especially painful to watch when people start putting apostrophes in plurals, such as 'car's' or 'avocado's'.

I see these all the times on signs for fruit and vege shops. (CARROT'S $2/KG). :eek:
 
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