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SoapFish

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

UPDATE: Added Less/Fewer.

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Zumza

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

Proposal: all english tenses and how and when to use them.

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Mieaz

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

alot
a lot
allot
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Assure
Ensure
Insure
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into
in to
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loose
lose
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who (when describing people)
that (when describing objects)
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imo you should make explanations less "neat", but more understandable; like you are writing a blog instead of dictionary

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Gosha

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

have has (he have thropy)
do does (she do a lot of things)
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Somebody (and words like that) with do does, have has

Somebody have money

Tomahawk

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

Let's not confuse grammar with spelling. Stuff like the difference between "to" and "too" isn't grammar.

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mutantdevle

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

Let's not confuse grammar with spelling. Stuff like the difference between "to" and "too" isn't grammar.

Then surely that would mean 'their' and 'there' are not grammar errors and instead are spelling errors?

I would say using 'to' and 'too' incorrectly counts as grammar as in most cases it's because they don't know when to use either 'to' or 'too'.

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Tomahawk

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

People who confuse "their" and "there" do so because they don't understand or confuse the meanings of the two words and use them interchangeably. That's not grammar, which focuses on syntax and structure. Stuff like the Oxford comma is grammar.

I suppose this thread would be better called something like "Common mistakes in English". Only three of four of the lessons so far are grammar lessons.

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Mieaz

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

People who confuse "their" and "there" do so because they don't understand or confuse the meanings of the two words and use them interchangeably. That's not grammar, which focuses on syntax and structure. Stuff like the Oxford comma is grammar.

I suppose this thread would be better called something like "Common mistakes in English". Only three of four of the lessons so far are grammar lessons.

most of them are grammar mistakes; for example "I have an apple":

if you say "I have a apple" that's grammar mistake, because you used wrong word,
if you say "I have an aple" that's spelling mistake, because you used non-existing word,

but nonetheless, it's actually good idea to have separated grammar lessons and common grammar mistakes

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Muftwin

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

Explain the difference between "Apples" and "Oranges".

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Ratburntro44

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

"Less" is used for things that can't be counted. "I drank less coke than her."
"Fewer" is used for things that can be counted. "You can only purchase ten items or fewer."

plsno. this meaning of less was literally just made up by some guy who wanted it to be that way
common usage (ie, the actual language) allows less to be used in far more contexts (in particular, "N items or less" is by far the preferred construction, even in news sources that are edited for style)

Gosha

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

Pls teach me when do I use either and neither

Hannah32

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

1. How else would you say gotta boost?
2. But do YOU know what keen means?

N1KF

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Re: English Grammar Lessons

Pls teach me when do I use either and neither

You can either use either or neither but you can neither use either in the wrong scenario.