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Originally Posted by Alexa Stott
Funny story about grammar, actually...I saw in our girls' locker room a message that read "Your a *edited for content*" written in blue Sharpie. Someone went in later and took her pen and wrote in the missing apostrophe and the "e" at the end of "you're" to make the statement grammatically correct.
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Did the edited word start with an A or any other vowel?
If so, then you should have added a letter N to make it "an" as well.
I hate the
Your vs
You're mix up. It's found like that everywhere I look nowadays it seems.
Then again, I'm sometimes stumped with the many forms of There, Their, and They're occasionally. Mostly There & Their.
I know There is "over there" (ie: place) & Their is used in "their dog" (ie: Posession) & They're is They Are (ie: intends to come before an action) but I still question myself with some sentences that use them.
Eh..
English is the language that combines every other language & butchers them & itself, and violates its own rules all the time anyways, so whatever!
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Originally Posted by JaneYoung
How many errors can be made before the code that teams write won't work? I'm honestly asking this question because I don't know.
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A code is kinda different where as there are syntax rules you have to follow and if you don't follow them correctly, you won't get far with the code, or it will just not perform its task.
English language on the other hand is not like code, because if you type a sentence like "Look at that dog over their" (instead of there) - Then people have the common sense to know what you are talking about, but it just looks bad.
It performs its duty, but is frowned upon as opposed to the code which won't work correctly if there is an error.