lamont2718
Joined: February 16, 2005
Number of comments posted: 33
Number of votes received: 16
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Recent Comments
on: Burnt
"I got burnt by my motorcycle's exhaust pipe" sounds just fi...
on: Littler
You should try to avoid using "littler" when you can instead...
on: Am I Missing Something?
Get it right: It's not a hyphen--it's a DASH....
on: I versus Me
This has already been discussed pretty thoroughly in this to...
on: The Only One I Ever Wanted
I think part of the reason it sounds awkward is because of i...
on: North or northern
I'm not sure about any rules, but I'm pretty sure that "Sout...
on: You Joking Me?
Actually, you can "joke" someone. "joke, v. ... 2. ...
on: You Joking Me?
I hear people say both all the time. While it is true that w...
on: Everybody doesn’t say it like that...
Although I almost never hear that construction, you make per...
on: verb tenses
Bah, a number of typos in that post: In the third paragra...
on: verb tenses
It all depends on context. Technically, none of them are tru...
on: me or I
Upon perusal of the OED, I found this definition of the pron...
on: me or I
Oh, and to Persephone Imytholin: Could you please direct ...
on: me or I
I completely agree with IngisKahn. Anyone who says "for my s...
on: Plural of name ending in Y
Go for either Murphies or Murphys--both look a tad weird to ...
on: Login into or log in to
I still hear people use "sign on" and "log on" very often, u...
on: some troubles with passsives
Although Marta didn't directly state her idea of what "bette...
on: Plural s-ending Possessives
"The Jones' house" doesn't make any sense; that's like sayin...
on: Plural s-ending Possessives
Speedwell, I have a question for you. In the first post, you...
on: Plural s-ending Possessives
A tiny correction on Brad's comment: Adding -'s to a poss...
on: affectatious
It's in the Oxford English Dictionary as an adjective: "Of t...
on: partner
While it is true that "partner" is often used to refer to a ...
on: Possessive with acromyms ending in S
"Initialisms are made up of the initial letters of words and...
on: Comprise
The "of" is inherent in the definition of "comprise," which ...
on: eat vs. have breakfast
Notice the qualifiers used in the past few comments; we can ...
on: my being vs me being
Slemmet, you're right. My examples at the bottom weren't app...
on: my being vs me being
It looks like you are missing something. It is completely in...
on: Upon/on
CQ is absolutely right in that "upon" is slightly more forma...
on: eat vs. have breakfast
Well when it comes to breakfast, the converse substitution w...
on: Upon/on
Both on and upon can be used. In no situation would there ev...
on: eat vs. have breakfast
Actually, I find that "to eat" and "to have" breakfast are a...
on: web site or Web site
I've never heard "Web" used to refer to a website. Instead, ...
October 30, 2005, 10:41pm • 0 vote
on: ‘...’?
To answer your question, yes. I should note, though, that...