English lessons! Pls post examples and correct usage ...

[Phoenix]

Speaking of correct usage ... your vs. you're.

Your is used when something belongs you you.
It is your diamond.

You're is short for you are.
You're the owner of that diamond.

Hope a certain someone here sees this. Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge.

Kenny...You're nuts? Your two nuts? correct?...

Your both two nuts!! Your loosing your mind!! I'm going to call my doctor's who are definitaly going to insure your going to be taken care off by the nurse's. Come quick!!

 

[the_mother_thing]

Another one I hear often is the mis-pluralization (if that is a word) of professional titles. For example, if we are, by title, referring to Michelle Obama and Laura Bush, we would say " First Ladies of the ..." Some folks add the "s" on to the last word in whatever the title is. Another example would be "Clerks of the Court" (correct) vs. "Clerk of the Courts" (incorrect).

To muddy the waters a bit, there are many different "correct" usages for things depending on who you ask and in which context or format for writing. When I wrote for a newspaper, the AP Style book was (and I believe still is) the "bible"; in a collegiate, academic or other setting, there are other reference books that prescribe other and sometimes different rules.

This is one reason why I could never become an English teacher after journalism.

I refuse to look up the current usage. In my day it was the Bible. So I say the Bible.

The reason I lowercased it here is because it wasn't a biblical reference.

Use lowercase when using Bible in all nonreligious uses. For example,

The AP Stylebook is the bible of all stylebooks.

http://writingexplained.org/ap-style/ap-style-bible

 

[kenny]

Attorneys General is correct, but it still makes my teeth itch.

Switching affect and effect! GRRR!

 

[Skhii]

I see complement switched with compliment often. Complementary angles...