Title: Common Errors in English Usage Post by: Surfrider on February 10, 2006, 03:46:28 PM I often see people ask for tips on writing and speaking English on this site.? Here is a great site about common errors people make in writing and speaking English.? It's a great site.
http://www.wsu.edu/%7Ebrians/errors/errors.html#errors Title: Re: Common Errors in English Usage Post by: Where is Hassan Nasrallah ? on February 10, 2006, 03:53:36 PM WOW !!! THANKS !!!! :love: :love: :love: :love:
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Title: Re: Common Errors in English Usage Post by: AxlsMainMan on February 10, 2006, 06:11:30 PM Thank yu Berkeley..
I hav lernd how tu spel gooder tooday.. :) Title: Re: Common Errors in English Usage Post by: journey on February 10, 2006, 06:42:25 PM This is something I do a lot. And I had an argument with someone about it being incorrect:
Beginning a sentence with a conjunction It offends those who wish to confine English usage in a logical straitjacket that writers often begin sentences with ?and? or ?but.? True, one should be aware that many such sentences would be improved by becoming clauses in compound sentences; but there are many effective and traditional uses for beginning sentences thus. One example is the reply to a previous assertion in a dialogue: ?But, my dear Watson, the criminal obviously wore expensive boots or he would not have taken such pains to scrape them clean.? Make it a rule to consider whether your conjunction would repose more naturally within the previous sentence or would lose in useful emphasis by being demoted from its position at the head of a new sentence. Title: Re: Common Errors in English Usage Post by: Walk on February 10, 2006, 09:53:44 PM I know most of these, but it makes a good reference. Thank you. :)
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