Remedial English Class
For those of you out there who still cling to the atrocious grammatical error "feeling badly", here's a link to some required reading...
Grammar Girl : "Bad" Versus "Badly" :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™
This article goes into more detail than I have done, maybe that's what you need to mend your grammatically incorrect ways. I've heard some very pompous and self-important people making this blunder in their public speech. If only they knew how foolish they sound, particularly the ones that have risen to academic heights like high school principal or college professorship.
Grammar Girl : "Bad" Versus "Badly" :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™
This article goes into more detail than I have done, maybe that's what you need to mend your grammatically incorrect ways. I've heard some very pompous and self-important people making this blunder in their public speech. If only they knew how foolish they sound, particularly the ones that have risen to academic heights like high school principal or college professorship.
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OH! I get it, I do! I get it!! I feel badly for those that don\'t!!!
LOL......LOLOL.......gotcha!
Of all the friends in the world I could possibly have, why do I always wind up with such smart alecks???...LOL.
Cuz you\'re a lucky dog!!!! And listen! If and when I good up with the \"badly\" thing....I want you to call me on it! OK? Fair enough!! I\'m really not aware if I do it or not. I have to pay attention!!
Darla, you may someday regret that you told me that...LOL. I just love correcting bad grammar.
By the way, I don\'t mind if someone corrects my blunders...in fact I like it.
Starting with conjunctions and ending with prepositions is more of a stylistic license than an error in my opinion, Dyna. I was going to say humble opinion, but no one is going to buy that...LOL.
The one that bothers me the most is using incorrect case for personal pronouns. That\'s just dumb...anybody who speaks English as a native tongue should know that the pronoun \"I\" cannot be used when it\'s the object of a preposition or verb...yet I hear it constantly on TV.
I\'m sure you\'ve all heard lines in stories like...\"If you apologize to Millicent and I (sic) about last night, we might be willing to forget what you did to us at the club.\"
If they\'re going to brutalize the English language like that, at least they could be consistent...\"If you apologize to Millicent and I, us might be willing to forget what you did to we at the club last night.\" There, isn\'t that better?
Another one that grates is seeing signs in department stores that say things like \"Cargo pant 19.95\" If you only pay for one \"pant\", do they cut a pair in half with scissors and only give you one leg? Does a pair of cargo pants cost $39.90?