The GirlAlive Diaries

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Grammar, people!

Okay, so I'm a little anal-retentive, but I'm getting really annoyed with the complete lack of English education.

I can forgive a typo here and there. Clumsy fingers happen to anyone. But one of the managers in my office has spelled "apply" as "upply" for an entire week. When writing about more than one queue, she keeps writing "queue's" instead of "queues".

Why do we give people high school diplomas when they can't even write in their native language? Please notice that I didn't write "in they're native language" or "in there native language". There are correct and incorrect words to use in a given context, and they are not that hard to learn.

Your = something belonging to you
You're = contraction of "you are"
Ur = not a word in English

There = in that location
Their = belonging to them
They're = contraction of "they are"

Hear = comprehend sound
Here = in this place

Bare = naked
Bear = carry a heavy load, or a large furry animal

Its = belonging to it
It's = contraction of "it is"

My break is done now. (Break = a fracture or dysfunction, or a momentary pause; Brake = a device for stopping a car.) I'd better get back to work.

Alana
www.girlalive.com

9:20 a.m. - 2005-07-11

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