Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Another!

http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2008/09/conservative-in-politics-terrorist-in.html

That a deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal doesn’t know basic grammar and punctuation present a sign of how far the country has fallen.
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Hugh Fayle said...
That a deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal doesn’t know basic grammar and punctuation [present] a sign of [how far the country has fallen].Make sure your verbs agree with the subjects they follow. That is, "present" should be "presents" to concur with the singularity of the noun clause.Further, do not allow an adverbial clause to act as the object of a prepositional phrase.

Hugh Fayle Moore said...
I notice you did not approve the comments I left you. Do you have a reason for not doing so--a reputation of grammatical perfection you have (yet fail) to keep, perhaps?Shame. I don't even know if you understood the corrections I was making in your analyses.I am generally not this conniving, but I read your profile and caught wind of your contentious spirit. Now I am just trying to instigate. We grammarians have little else to do.


Yippee! I had seen the "present" error a while ago but let it slide. After all, I thought it was probably a typo. What's one "s" between friends?

Welcome to the fray, Hugh. I'm not normally conniving either, but I take exception in this cow's case. The reason she started screening her comments in the first place is because she couldn't handle my pulling her up on all of her errors and hypocrisy. Yes, we all make errors, but the way this bitch carries on irks me.

You'll note that she won't answer you. Get used to it. She'll call you names and take cheap shots rather than defend what she writes.

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