Johncuppa:

Good job!
Finish dat rule of Concord
Wic verb (singular or plural ) should follow the ffgs
Something, anything, most, many, Everything etc

something singular
anything singular
most plural
many plural
everything singular

Indefinite pronouns generally are singular in nature

Hawlahscho:


culture is very different my brother,


I understand your condition though


That moment when you are trying to be different by mixing 'the two' together ignorantly

Name 5 attributes of culture and see if language won't pop up
...have you come across. The term hellenization



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenization


Don't ever pass judgement on concept you have no
idea about....

dake40:


Name 5 attributes of culture and see if language won't pop up
...have you come across. The term hellenization



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenization


Don't ever pass judgement on concept you have no
idea about....

and where did I judge anybody? @ least a person is guilty of one of those mistakes I pinned out. I never judged anybody

eraly:



English teacher, continue o

English LANGUAGE teacher.

eraly:



English teacher, continue o

English LANGUAGE teacher.

I think you still got some grammar wrong from your post;


"I didn't know when I bursted into laughter too" should be "I didn't know when I burst into laughter too"

DarryOsh:


Actually, the word 'staff' has no singular form. You cannot refer to an individual as 'staff'. You should rather say 'member of staff'

Also, Its simply 'I will try my best'. The word 'possible' should not be placed side by side with best, regardless of whether it is before of after.

IT'S SIMPLY not its simply.

Hawlahscho:

What's Obodo
the one I know is a footballer

obodo is "country" in ibo

Akiika:
I think you still got some grammar wrong from your post;


"I didn't know when I bursted into laughter too" should be "I didn't know when I burst into laughter too"

Check d comment immediately after d post.

Luckymay:
obodo is "country" in ibo

Thanks jare

you made mistakes in ur write up too. the word ''burst'' remains ''burst'' even as a past tense. u went ahead n used ''bursted'' which does not exist english. "error is when u don't know d right thing before saying the wrong thing, while mistake is when u know d right thing but u said d wrong thing"
is yours an error or a mistake pls?

Hawlahscho:


Smiles, YOU MUST BE A LITERATURE TEACHER OR LECTURER.

the first bold statement is a typo.


Other corrections made me laugh though they make sense. I didn't care about d punctuation marks before but now that you've emphasized on them, d correction will affect d next post.

I appreciate Bro

not at all, just grew up like that. My Eng/Lit. teacher used to call me Mr. Know it all tho smh.

uss25dec:
you made mistakes in ur write up too. the word ''burst'' remains ''burst'' even as a past tense. u went ahead n used ''bursted'' which does not exist english. "error is when u don't know d right thing before saying the wrong thing, while mistake is when u know d right thing but u said d wrong thing"
is yours an error or a mistake pls?

You rushed down to comment without checking where I corrected it.

Hawlahscho:
Why should u be d FTC when am the OP





[size=25pt]I typed bursted instead of burst[/size]
bullet of life,
thanks to those who corrected politely.

It was an error anyway.

Vig86:

IT'S SIMPLY not its simply.

I stand corrected. Thank you

to contribute to the thread, one mistake a lot of people make has to do with wrongly interchanging the words fate and faith. E.g,

He took it in good fate - WRONG instead of he took it in good Faith - RIGHT


OR

One faithful day instead of one fateful day

Also, the limited vocabulary of our media professionals is quite alarming! When a man and lady dance, the only word (seemingly) used to describe it is "rocked". what in the world does this have to do with dancing??

Or a lady takes a pic and the headline is "lady so and so FLAUNTS this and that"

Please try and expand your vocabulary.

Hawlahscho:

Thanks jare

u welcm. Oh! since we re in English class, it should be "you 're welcome" lol

dinkyicon:
im using this platform to inform nd correct my igbo brethren that there is nothing like ....pre-par its prepare(prepair) nd derz nothing like deter myne... but determine (determean) nd nothing like ya but your

*faints* chai!

naijamakossa:
Mr professor,,I dey hail ooo,,,,
I dey is in present and hail is in present too.

lol

[quote author=exthar87 post=37318669][/quote] I'm sorry... not am

Unfortunately, even your post is an example of the lazy writing habit and terrible diction that's prevalent today; your intention of your post is as noble as it is rife with errors.
I appreciate what you're trying to do here, but, for crying out loud, you've taking out time to write a passage of decent length, therefore, you would make a stronger argument with standard English.
For example if you use the standard "the", instead of "d" ; it won't cost you much additional effort, as a matter of fact it amounts to just two more letters ("the" Vs "d" )
In a similar vein, "you" speaks better than "u".
This is not twitter where you're limited to 160 characters, and even for tweets, it's hardly enough excuse.
However, if the above is to be pardoned, it's difficult to miss your erroneous usage of "Am", in place of "I am" (or I'm) ; that's just travesty at its peak.

Simply put, standard English is easier to read, Shorthand is absolutely NOT, it's difficult, painful and annoyingly frustrating.

Social media is taking a heavy toll on us, and writing in correct grammar is becoming more of a herculean task and the worst part is few have noticed.
Let's nip this at the bud please, before it's too late.

Praise5:
My yoruba brothers and sisters please take note:
Torch...not "tos"
Chicken...not "sikin"
Yam...not "nyam"
Have...not "haf"
Hehehehe

your people will not kill somebody o
lolzzzz

littlelion:
Pls i want to know, Which is correct and which is not:
:I did went........
I did go......
Thanks

I did go
past agrees with present tense with some exceptions though regarding SOME past participles

Luckymay:

u welcm. Oh! since we re in English class, it should be "you 're welcome" lol

where u ought to v used fullstop, u used comma

AncientJerk:
to contribute to the thread, one mistake a lot of people make has to do with wrongly interchanging the words fate and faith. E.g,

He took it in good fate - WRONG instead of he took it in good Faith - RIGHT


OR

One faithful day instead of one fateful day

Also, the limited vocabulary of our media professionals is quite alarming! When a man and lady dance, the only word (seemingly) used to describe it is "rocked". what in the world does this have to do with dancing??

Or a lady takes a pic and the headline is "lady so and so FLAUNTS this and that"

Please try and expand your vocabulary.

........
I suppose you mean to say, " he took it in good FATE is correct. Because he took it in good faith is a wrong use of faith.
FATE not faith!!

Y u dey quote me

ADENIKETINA2015:

I'm sorry... not am

Shut up. you should be the last person to correct people because yours is not even close to good at all.

Hawlahscho:

THE COMMON SILLY MISTAKES/ERRORS PEOPLE MAKE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE.


They say "nobody is above mistake", that's is nothing but the truth, one of my lecturers does say; "error is when u don't know d right thing before saying the wrong thing, while mistake is when u know d right thing but u said d wrong thing"

Everybody is liable to mistakes of course, either silly or not, but some people are not expected to make silly mistakes, else it'll be categorized as unprofessional.

There was a day, I went to file a fresh case @d magistrate court Isabo Abeokuta, normally, any for me, any time I find myself in an/a official/formal organization like that, I express myself in English language because that's d official language, so after greetings, I explained to a woman what I came to do;
I: Ma, I came to file a new case, this is my first time of doing that, please how do I go about it?
The Woman: "E ko iranu siwaju joo, won a ma so Oyinbo bi eni pe won o gbo Yoruba, Oloyinbo o ki ku sile, America ni won n ku si." (Get out with rubbish, they'll be speaking English as if they don't understand Yoruba, English men don't die @home, they die in America). I was so embarrassed as the people there bursted into laughter, I just smiled it off as if it was nothing, I later replied, "E joo ma, bawo ni mo se ma se e?" (Please ma, how do I do it?) She directed me to one young man in d same office, I turned to his table, he looked @me and began to laugh again, "that's how they form as if they can even speak d correct English" he said. I was so annoyed but I didn't show it facially because what I went there to do was very important, he was still attending to me when a man of about 80years old that looks like a professor came in with his son, he followed d grown up son for age declaration or affidavit, the man requested for a teller so that his son could go and pay d necessary fees first;
The old man: Please, where can I get teller so that my son will go and pay d necessary fees?
The young man: Am sorry, there is no teller @d moment, I've WENT to REQUESTED for it more than 5times today.
The old man: You have what!!!?
The young man: I said I have WENT to REQUESTED for d teller several times today.
The old man: Oh my God! People like you still make such mistake? This is not professional @all, young man, it is not "I have WENT", it'll "I have GONE", and why should u say "to REQUESTED" when the correct thing is "to REQUEST". Please son, watch d way you speak English, it'll not our language though but your post here demands something fluent. The people on the queue were already laughing their lungs lungs out while d young man was just numb, I didn't know when I bursted into laughter too, I looked @his face again it was like "shit wey rain beat " , I cautioned my laughter until I left d office, I laugh each time I remember how d old man reacted to d "gunshot" that day. That triggered me to list out some common silly mistakes people make knowingly / unknowingly:

1: Auxiliary verbs mis-usage
From the young man's error above, he used the auxiliary verb "have" which d followed verb must be in part participle. "I have gone"

2: "To" and verb
When "to" is used, the followed verb must be in present tense; "I have come to tell you"

3: "Did" and verb
The same rule with "to", when u use "did", then ur next verb has to be present tense. That reminds me of what happened to me some years back, I accompanied my friend to choir rehearsal, a guy asked me if I came for rehearsal too, "No, I did not came for the rehearsal", I said, the guy was like "pardon?" I realized that I've "shot", I responded immediately "I said no, I just accompanied him to rehearsal"

4: Rules of Concord
This is well known to people, I still wonder why they misuse it pretty well.
i: When the noun or pronoun is singular, the verb too should be singular, e.g "Lalasticla uses 23 hours online out of his 24 hours in a day"
ii: When the noun or pronoun is plural, d verb should be plural. E.g "I wonder if Nairaland moderators work somewhere else"

5: Mis-usage of singular verb "does"
Especially in negative sentences, after using "does", the next verb, d next verb should not be in singular again: "He does not know" He does not knows

6: You can correct my mistakes/errors and add yours



Hawlahscho

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I don see wole soyinka pikin

Abeg come nd teaching(lol) me how to speaking well so that fine fine boys will liking me

kokomilala:
Before you jumped to premature conclusions, you should have read what I posted a second time.I posted that 'it's very predominant in British English...' I'm a grammarian; I've got a degree in English Language.My thesis involved what is on discourse.I researched thoroughly.I've taught it for so many years.I didn't just emerge from zero level to contribute to the thread.You see,before you hastily critique people's works, get your facts ready, because from obvious indications you're contradicted by your own limitations of syntax or grammar.

Haha!

Hawlahscho:

something singular anything singular most plural many plural everything singular
Indefinite pronouns generally are singular in nature

God bless you

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