Thank you for gracefully acknowledging the information.
Hey, you presented it well and you gave me an opportunity to blow some dust off an aging journalism degree. Thank you.
My father was a college English teacher, so I was fortunate enough to get a well-rounded education. I learned the English because I had to and the math and science because I wanted to.
What an interesting mirror! My dad, a professor, taught K-12 math in a college lab school and math education courses in the college. He wrote a few K-12 textbooks too, so I learned the math because he liked having a guinea pig. I learned the English because I loved writing. Still, I ended up in network engineering. Go figure.
(original) Is English you're second language, troll?
I don't correct people's grammar mistakes in their regular posts on Slashdot because that's rude. I do, however, correct mistakes in people's arrogant attempts at correcting other people.
Yes. I can relate...
In particular please note the gerund.
Heh. I am smirking, because you are correct about the gerund phrases. Thank you for the much deserved correction.
...but I am bothered at your calling it a run-on sentence...Indecision(subject) is(verb) different(predicate adjective).
Nicely parsed. If I had read a little more carefully, I would have digested the meandering clauses much better. That doesn't mean that the sentence was well-written.
Please know better before correcting someone else.
You found two mistakes, but you acknowledged two of my points, and you acquiesced regarding my "your v. you're" correction. Empirically speaking, I have risen to the definition of "better". I fell short of the definition of "perfect" though, so I take your point.
Hmm. Your glass house may have a whole lot of holes. You're going to have to practice your English. FYI, to and two are different too.
What does Sam wanting to kill Gollum have to do with Frodo wanting to keep him around?
"Wanting" is a verb; you're under the impression it's a noun. Your hypocritical desire to criticize someone's English is another noun, and it's the subject of this sentence too.
You know, where a character speaks?
Just where, I ask, is the subject located in this sentence? You know...It's the place where you identify what you're talking about. Complete sentences make English easier to understand, don't you think Yoda?
She only does that towards the end of the RotK. And indecision about the best course for the fellowship is just tiny smidgeon different than wondering whether or not to fulfill the destiny you have been working toward your entire life.
Summarily, we have a meandering, nonsequetorial, and run-on sentence, beginning with the word "And" no less. And it's posed as the rebuttal of another writer's nonsequitor. Does it get worse? While it's become acceptible to begin a sentence with "and," that sentence must be directly related to the preceeding sentence for it to make any sense. See?
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That's true, generally...
Hey, you presented it well and you gave me an opportunity to blow some dust off an aging journalism degree. Thank you.
My father was a college English teacher, so I was fortunate enough to get a well-rounded education. I learned the English because I had to and the math and science because I wanted to.
What an interesting mirror! My dad, a professor, taught K-12 math in a college lab school and math education courses in the college. He wrote a few K-12 textbooks too, so I learned the math because he liked having a guinea pig. I learned the English because I loved writing. Still, I ended up in network engineering. Go figure.
I don't correct people's grammar mistakes in their regular posts on Slashdot because that's rude. I do, however, correct mistakes in people's arrogant attempts at correcting other people.
Yes. I can relate...
In particular please note the gerund.
Heh. I am smirking, because you are correct about the gerund phrases. Thank you for the much deserved correction.
Nicely parsed. If I had read a little more carefully, I would have digested the meandering clauses much better. That doesn't mean that the sentence was well-written.
Please know better before correcting someone else.
You found two mistakes, but you acknowledged two of my points, and you acquiesced regarding my "your v. you're" correction. Empirically speaking, I have risen to the definition of "better". I fell short of the definition of "perfect" though, so I take your point.
Hmm. Your glass house may have a whole lot of holes. You're going to have to practice your English. FYI, to and two are different too.
What does Sam wanting to kill Gollum have to do with Frodo wanting to keep him around?
"Wanting" is a verb; you're under the impression it's a noun. Your hypocritical desire to criticize someone's English is another noun, and it's the subject of this sentence too.
You know, where a character speaks?
Just where, I ask, is the subject located in this sentence? You know...It's the place where you identify what you're talking about. Complete sentences make English easier to understand, don't you think Yoda?
She only does that towards the end of the RotK. And indecision about the best course for the fellowship is just tiny smidgeon different than wondering whether or not to fulfill the destiny you have been working toward your entire life.
Summarily, we have a meandering, nonsequetorial, and run-on sentence, beginning with the word "And" no less. And it's posed as the rebuttal of another writer's nonsequitor. Does it get worse? While it's become acceptible to begin a sentence with "and," that sentence must be directly related to the preceeding sentence for it to make any sense. See?