Proofreading Service - Pain in the English
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Proofreading Service - Pain in the English
Proofreading Service - Pain in the English

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24-Hour Proofreading Service—We proofread your Google Docs or Microsoft Word files. We hate grammatical errors with a passion. Learn More

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JJMBallantyne

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December 30, 2006

Total number of comments

142

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“she” vs “her”

  • July 25, 2010, 4:01pm

"I was speaking to my administrator and explaining how I met another person in our company. I said “her and I traveled to Kansas together”. She stopped me and said it should be “she and I traveled to Kansas together”. I feel both were appropriate, but she disagreed. Could we both be correct?"

You are actually both right but only she is "correct".

Your administrator has an advantage over you here: she has the full force of "formal" English usage on her side. On your side, you only have colloquial English.

Really happy or real happy

  • July 25, 2010, 3:54pm

The idea that that "real" as an adverb might have a certain nuanced difference in meaning from "really" hadn't occurred to me before. Interesting; I'll have to think about that.

If you're looking for a hard "rule" though, I recommend you confine your use of the adverb "real" to colloquial language and stick with "really" in formal spoken/written English.

“Anglish”

  • July 25, 2010, 3:44pm

"Does anybody have an opinion or thoughts on “Anglish”…"

Yes, it's a ridiculous idea.

"Samebloodedness"? Get a life.

“and yet”

  • February 28, 2010, 2:29pm

If it were redundant, it wouldn't be there, would it?

46 year old heated Caribbean debate

  • September 22, 2009, 9:06am

Life must be pretty good in Trinidad and Tobago if this is all you have to argue about down there!

How soon can I move to Palo Seco?

Loose = Lose?

  • September 22, 2009, 9:01am

In summary then: it's simply a spelling mistake.

Given the vast numbers of folks who can now write directly onto the Web without having to be vetted by any editor or proofreader, you should not be surprised at the exponential increase in misspelled words.

Get used to it!

Try and

  • June 17, 2008, 10:11am

"I shall never accept that simple prevailing usage makes erroneous grammar somehow magically correct."

Then why is Modern English so different from Old English?

Who made the lack of noun inflection, grammatical gender and extensive verb conjugation "magically correct"?

Why would you propose to effectively "freeze" the grammar of English and the continuing evolution of the language against all evidence that it is entirely futile?

Past tense of “text”

  • June 9, 2008, 3:36pm

What does need have to do with anything?

Past tense of “text”

  • June 5, 2008, 4:17am

Correction: my last should have been:

I suggest that the past form is pronounced "texd."

Past tense of “text”

  • June 5, 2008, 4:15am

I suggest that the past form is pronounced "text'd".

It should thus likely be written as "texted".

This would be in line with similar verbs like "work" and "mix".