Sky's "How to English" Lessons

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  1. I agree. I was also taught to use logic to determine whether punctuation goes in or outside quotation marks. I will continue to use logic to this. For example, a stop sign does not say "stop." It says "stop". Any of you can show me any source, but I will write like this, it's just far more logical.
    Dr_Chocolate, Jun 30, 2015
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  2. I see wherein the problem may lie:
    I was taught in a school that did not teach to the APA guidelines, except for some citations. I was taught according to the ACS style because we focused on British literature in literary criticism and my primary focus was science outside of that.

    So there is a difference based on what you were taught...which is quite annoying honestly.
    Krysyy, Jun 30, 2015
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  3. Isn't that the other way 'round? When I write, I'd say:
    "Phil and I hatching our next plan: to kill Max Branning".
    When I talk in real life, I'd say:
    "Phil and me were hatching our next plan: to kill Max Branning".
    I'll give a like to anyone who gets the reference.

    I've always been taught that the way I write is the proper way to do it, all of the famous authors I read the works of (George R.R Martin, I think Tolkien, among more) use that. It also sounds right, and my sister gets close to biting my head off when I speak (Merseyside dialect is a very confusing thing and is a general annoyance to those who don't speak it :p).
    synth_apparition, Jun 30, 2015
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  4. That was on the site you listed. :p But yeah, people are annoying. The world would be so much easier if everyone spoke the same language with the same rules on punctuation and grammar. I say we just head over to Britain and beat up all the grammar professors until they agree to follow the American way of commas. Standards definitely change, though. When I was young, I was always taught to put two spaces after a period, and now I believe that that's incorrect. Annoying as heck, if you ask me.
    Hashhog, Jun 30, 2015
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  5. "I found this," said cadenman2002, "very funny."
    CadenMann, Jun 30, 2015
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  6. The paragraph below that explains more. It really depends on if the quotation could be a standalone sentence or not. However, as noted earlier, purely semantics at this point.

    Lol, no. A quotation that short wouldn't be split up.
    Krysyy, Jun 30, 2015
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  7. Allow me, please...

    "The origins of this joke are very interesting," said cadenman2002, "and also quite funny."
    CadenMann, Jun 30, 2015
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  8. I like colourful biscuits.
    TomvanWijnen, Jun 30, 2015
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  9. Wouldn't?
    neonkillah, Jun 30, 2015
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  10. Would.
    Unoski, Jun 30, 2015
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  11. You can expect/predict chance?
    neonkillah, Jun 30, 2015
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  12. From what I remember when my Latin teacher use to go on rants about English grammar, and bad English teachers;
    "I" would be used before the verb, and "me" would be used after it
    "John and I were chosen"
    "Jill chose John and me"
    AvocadoMatt, Jun 30, 2015
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  13. That post is aimed at all the people linking this thread everytime a mistake is made.

    I get that people from am english speaking country should atleast know how to use their own language, but you can't blame people from other countries for not understanding grammar of another language in addition to their own.
    I never got any english lessons, so i had to learn it all by myself which is a process that will most likely be never finished. I will read your tutorials and give it a try, but always getting linked to this post because you did one or two mistakes kinda offends me.
    akaikee, Jul 1, 2015
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  14. How about this one? 607 is 1.90m, caden is 1.89m. I'm 607. Caden is shorter than [me or I?].
    607, Jul 1, 2015
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  15. Is shorter than me / is shorter than I am
    Me gues
    haastregt, Jul 1, 2015
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  16. Caden is shorter than me.

    Me is usually used at the end of the sentence or used in indirect subject usage.

    Since we're focusing on Caden as the main subject, it's 'me': Caden is shorter than me.

    If we were focusing on you, it may be 'I': I am taller than Caden.
    Elite, Jul 1, 2015
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  17. I've always been taught to say the first one as you had it but the second as Jill chose John and I
    jacob5089, Jul 2, 2015
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