![]() Fundamentally though this is part of a dialect, and if you consider every dialect a "butchering" of the English language then IMO you're missing out on a cornucopia of fascinating linguistic variety. It's also been around (continuously) for over a thousand years. Quoting WestJet747 ( Reply 1): I'll also nominate "axe" (instead of "ask") as a butchering of the English language that drives me nuts. I don't consider this a grammatical error more a complete brain failure. One that gets me is I could care less instead of I couldn't care less. Quoting iowaman ( Reply 31): A lot of good examples in this thread. The danger with all this pedantry is that grammar becomes a tool for some people to exert their superiority over others rather than a means of aiding comprehension, and that would be a great shame. I've never heard anybody use those forms and thought, even for a second, that I didn't know exactly who was being referred to in the sentence and what they were doing.ĭitto the obsession people have for or against the Oxford comma- whichever path you choose it's possible to contrive some ludicrous circumstance where you wouldn't know exactly what the sentence referred to, but how often does it actually happen? Almost never. There is absolutely no good reason to make this distinction- it's purely a matter of preferred style. It is not "me and her", " him and me" or any of the other abominations that are popular these days. Quoting IMissPiedmont ( Reply 27): The ones that annoy me the most are the improper use of pronouns. If the form used is no impediment to understanding then as far as I'm concerned it is correct. Not to pick on you, but this obsession with language being correct or incorrect ignores the way language has evolved over centuries and centuries and how it changes from day to day to become simpler in everyday conversation. Quoting Redd ( Reply 12): I'm a bit of a grammar Nazi. OK, this one I have literally never heard spoken or written! Can you cite some examples? People say something like:That is the "worse" looking airplane made. Quoting FriscoHeavy ( Reply 8): Another one that is terrible, but not used quite as much is "Worst". I guess it could be a Texas-specific thing for normal people. ![]() I've only ever heard this used by hillbillies and gangbangers. ![]() "If I hadn't taught English, I wouldn't have become such a douche and shown off my grammar skills". ![]() The 3rd form of any verb can also be found in the English Language's 3rd Conditional (to express regrets): If + Past Perfect / Would + Present Perfect. The structure, Noun + have + verb #3 will indicate the former time and the past simple tense, noun + verb#2, will express the latter time in the sentence.įuture Perfect: "By next week, I will have seen the Eiffel Tower." To indicate that until a certain time in the future, something will have been done. ![]() Past Perfect: "I had never seen anything so beautiful, before I saw the Eiffel Tower" (To state that something, or the lack of something had occurred before something else. Present Perfect: "I have seen the Eiffel Tower" (To indicate an action in the past with no specific time mentioned) The only tenses in which the third form of any verb should ever be used are these 3: Seen is the 3rd form of the irregular verb 'to see'. ![]()
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