Ok guys so for my art class we got to make a sketch every week. And this weeks topic is something your afraid of. But the thing is i cant really think of something im afraid. So why dont yall help me out and post some stuff that really bug you out!
Simple grammar mistakes.
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complaining about simple grammar mistakes.
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clowns
a string snaping and the yoyo rolling down the middle of the street
first two that come to mind
Large spiders and monsters in the closet.
- Bees, Wasps, Hornets, anything of the kind
- Anything near my eyes (especially sharp objects, or any objects for that matter)
- Anything near or in my ears
Bullets and sharp objects coming at me. Also flying monkeys. Anyone who claims to not be scared of flying monkeys is a liar.
- Bees or any creepy bug that stings or bites!!!
- like small ledges high up and high heights when I’m not harnessed to anything.
- I’m afraid of the unknown, not knowing what’s going to happen next
A future full of people glued to the television screen.
Isn’t it ironic that you made a simple grammar mistake, by using the fragment “simple grammar mistake”? LOL
Having a Noctu rip throw my eyebrow! Twice.
That maybe my swag will reach a point that it’ll start hurting others. #tybg
Falling UP into the sky.
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Subject- grammar mistakes
Verb- simple
Sentence. So he was right.
Cold lotion contact on sensitive areas, not even kidding.
In informal language, we are all at liberty to use sentence fragments, so I don’t think it was a problem to begin with. But since we’re trying to be pedantic…
“Simple” is NOT a verb. In this case, it is an adjective, along with “grammar”. Both modify “mistakes”.
What kinds of mistakes? Simple mistakes.
What kinds of mistakes (pt 2)? Grammar mistakes.
[edit]The subject is missing (understood to be “I”, but not in a grammatically correct way), and the predicate is incomplete without a verb. Therefore, not a sentence.
This is particularly true in Q&A formats. If we expect full sentences, the dialog would have gone:
“What are you afraid of?”
“I am afraid of simple grammar mistakes.”
Now there’s a subject and a predicate, but… yeah… you see that it’s totally unecessary.
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I figured someone would call me out on this. Pretty sure everyone understood my point, though.
I fear for the future of our planet.
I got something similar, I misspelled weird on a post in the General Yo-Yo part of the forum, and not a single person said anything.
And I thought I was smart for once! Thats why I have a D in Language arts, never remember verbs, adjectives, prepositional phrases etc. By the way, aren’t you a English/Grammer/Language Arts teacher?
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WAS an English teacher in a past career (though they say “once a teacher, always a teacher”). I’m now a software developer.
There’s definitely a time and place for formal rules. But there are also good times to ditch formality. I would think that an internet forum would be one of them!
That said, I think what Links is really more concerned with smaller-scale problems… like using “you’re” when you should be using “your”.