Something your afraid of.

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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!

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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

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Large spiders and monsters in the closet.

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  1. Bees, Wasps, Hornets, anything of the kind
  2. Anything near my eyes (especially sharp objects, or any objects for that matter)
  3. Anything near or in my ears
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Bullets and sharp objects coming at me. Also flying monkeys. Anyone who claims to not be scared of flying monkeys is a liar.

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  1. Bees or any creepy bug that stings or bites!!!
  2. like small ledges high up and high heights when Iā€™m not harnessed to anything.
  3. Iā€™m afraid of the unknown, not knowing whatā€™s going to happen next
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A future full of people glued to the television screen.

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Isnā€™t it ironic that you made a simple grammar mistake, by using the fragment ā€œsimple grammar mistakeā€? LOL

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Having a Noctu rip throw my eyebrow! Twice.

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That maybe my swag will reach a point that itā€™ll start hurting others. #tybg

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Falling UP into the sky.

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Subject- grammar mistakes
Verb- simple

Sentence. So he was right.

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Cold lotion contact on sensitive areas, not even kidding.

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In informal language, we are all at liberty to use sentence fragments, so I donā€™t think it was a problem to begin with. But since weā€™re trying to be pedanticā€¦

ā€œSimpleā€ is NOT a verb. In this case, it is an adjective, along with ā€œgrammarā€. Both modify ā€œmistakesā€.

What kinds of mistakes? Simple mistakes.
What kinds of mistakes (pt 2)? Grammar mistakes.

[edit]The subject is missing (understood to be ā€œIā€, 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:

ā€œWhat are you afraid of?ā€
ā€œI am afraid of simple grammar mistakes.ā€

Now thereā€™s a subject and a predicate, butā€¦ yeahā€¦ you see that itā€™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.

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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.

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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, arenā€™t you a English/Grammer/Language Arts teacher?

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[quote=ā€œdingo54,post:19,topic:51332ā€]
WAS an English teacher in a past career (though they say ā€œonce a teacher, always a teacherā€). Iā€™m now a software developer.

Thereā€™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 problemsā€¦ like using ā€œyouā€™reā€ when you should be using ā€œyourā€.