( dear ffviii: why do you abuse those poor apostrophes? )

The logic of Word's grammar check boggles my mind. Consider this sentence: "Talia, deciding that she too had nothing else to say, placed the folder containing Antares's research on the table and opened it." It's a complete sentence, right? It has a subject (Talia) and a compound predicate (placed and opened). Yet the grammar check seems to think ( Read more... )

Things I have thus far accomplished on this snow day:

1. I wrote a bit of a scene in TCOC that's been bouncing around in my head.
2. I watched Elf (The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!)
3. I made a pretty collage background for my computer.

Hmm, maybe that's it. It seems a lot more unproductive that it did in my head ( Read more... )

the improper-grammar saga continues: we were going over our "parallel structures" worksheets in class this morning, and when rob was reading his correct answer, he said "[insert beginning of sentence here, which introduces a list]--and then i put one of those colon things--[insert the list-ish rest of the sentence here]." shaylagh and i were just ( Read more... )

dear block a honors british literature teacher at sta:

i was very disturbed at your lack of grammatical knowledge while you taught my class about "parallel structure" or whatever the hell it's called. you endorse the fact that it is perfectly okay to separate a list from the rest of its sentence using a colon. this is not right. i have my copy of " ( Read more... )

You know when you're a grammar geek when you spend your whole time getting ready for school trying to make a line from a song grammatically correct. I had "All at Once" by the Fray stuck in my head - and it was the first line that goes "There are certain people you just keep coming back to." So that "to" at the end was really bothering me, so I ( Read more... )

PLEASE READ ME.

Okay, so my mom thinks that I should now be the designated planner for Mugglefest because Shaylagh's parent(s) is/are not driving. The problem is that I hate planning. SO, I need to find out these things from people as soon as possible so I don't have to get on the -gasp- FELLYTONE:

1) Isabella, is one or more of your parents going, ( Read more... )

On my algebra test today I was very dismayed to find a grammar error. "There" instead of "their" was used. And during Humanties when the other preseantation group handed out their note sheets, there were a couple grammar errors (including a RUN-ON) that I absolutely had to fix on my sheet. I guess I was feeling particularly grammatical.

The HBP ( Read more... )

I played the beginning of KH2 and the end of KH last night. They all look so little in the first game. Sora and Kairi have got these huge eyes. And when Kairi has short hair her head looks really big. And when you leave the first game on the start menu for too long, a little video plays with the text from Kairi's letter to Sora at the end of the ( Read more... )

Last night and this morning I was watching the first season finale of Lost. With the crappy subtitles. I want the second season on DVD right now even though they're re-running episodes on Wednesday nights. But with a DVD there's subtitles and no commercials and I can watch them in the comfort of my bedroom.

Yesterday during the basemaent-cleaning I ( Read more... )