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rotexteymie:
Cigarette ke
Concord in english

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.

YOLOHOMMIE:
aint u yeyenatu?

#YOLO

EggovinMma:
Well change your topic then to STANDARD BRITISH ENGLISH!

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

teawhy2788:
I hail u! But d words; has,have,had are called anomalous verbs not auxiliary verbs. Take note

EggovinMma:
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What reason (s).Pray tell.

Aminat508:
am not nah. I dont understand u ooooooo

Hawlahscho:
Phone lags while typing.

Most important, I don't have access to d post again.

PAINGAIN:
People make a lot of mistakes, especially... Number one on my list of mistakes people make is 1, STILL YET, they both mean d same thing so u can't use them together, instead say STILL or YET. My number 2 is TALKLESS, a lot of us dey make this mistake on a daily basis, instead say, MUCHLESS or LET ALONE. And please PURSUE is pronounced POSU not POSHU. Cheers.

MrTreasure1:
@OP...is this correct?
"That's what I just did"

Met someone that annoyed his girl and she called to ask for something else...then I was like 'apologise to her nah', when he said that.

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

Mustiboy:
you also just made a shot, who's obodo? D one i know is a footballer would have been perfect.

Hawlahscho:
You made me to check dictionary, and #gbam! you're right!

Thanks for correcting d ERROR.


My T9 dictionary wicked o, d ideot typed "bursted" with no signal

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

EggovinMma:
lol.Yout dey confuse yourself. I no argue with you o.The rules dey applicable for only standard English, no be so? The op no mention standard English but English language. Sorry the rules are applicable for only standard English.A Warri woman English no get rules. She fit add ogogoro join inside her English.

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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Hawlahscho:
And the topic is too ambiguous for you to comprehend with instinct

EggovinMma:
Now we are talking about instinct! !
Let's just keep it this way, Language use and it's assimilation is totally based on mutual intelligibility. I understand perfectly well you were only trying to educate, no worries, I was just educating us as well.I read, understood and got your message quite alright!

Unsad:
What Nigerians online will never learn is the difference between To & Too, & Am & I'm.

IYANGBALI:
i doesn't know why people finds it difficult to spoke or wrote correct English grammar,most especially here on Nairaland,every times i comes here and sees people spoke or wrote bad grammar i always feel demoralisation. People like Vick.yrotex,el.eko1,rokia.tu,barcan.ista,muk.ina2,lalasti.cl are the most guiltest of them all,their English grammar is annoyance and it destroy a nation. There is need for murderators to do something about them before they collapse Nairaland. People like me that readed English in school should be consulted to brush them up for them to improve their English grammar.

aoshi:
Exactly too. I ain't good with English myself but i think the word "burst" is "burst" be it past participle, present or future tense. So "everybody bursted out laughing" should be "everybody burst out laughing"
Cheers.

Hawlahscho:

musiliudee:
Oga ade abegi...truly it's our official lang bt shot or no shot in English speakn lang shud be ignored cos u already understood what he/she ws tryn passin across to u.av made mistakes n wl stl continue makn some little little mistakes.shey I be wole soyinka ni,the shot I cud remember ws instead of chose I used choosed on fb Infact after some hrs I realised dt yeepa moku mogbe mo daran ibon reeeeeeeee.fellow stupid pple lk me also hit like.anyway u fit point out bullet fr ds one also na u sabi.

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

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



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