It is funny you bring that up, because on the radio the other day, there was a story about a teacher unable to correct her children using 'aks' by telling them the word is 'ask' because it was considered... well.... it was a local teacher and she was told to stop correcting her student's speech patterns. Enough said.
Same here. I am a former elementary teacher, and I always notice grammar and spelling inconsistencies. It is one reason I will reject a resume.Just for those of you who mentioned it above, the difference between lay and lie is that lay is a transitive verb and lie is intransitive. With lay, it MUST take an object: I lay a book down, I lay myself down, I lay the dog down. With lie, you lie down, he lies down, the dog lies on the carpet, etc. The subject is the one lying, whereas with laying there is something that is getting laid down.(I am an English teacher and a tried and true grammar and spelling freak.
Cool! Thanks Coco! There are others that drive me crazy because I can never figure them out too. I can't think of them right now, but maybe I'll post them later and have you explain when to use them...I am definitely NOT an English teacher! LOL!Just for those of you who mentioned it above, the difference between lay and lie is that lay is a transitive verb and lie is intransitive. With lay, it MUST take an object: I lay a book down, I lay myself down, I lay the dog down. With lie, you lie down, he lies down, the dog lies on the carpet, etc. The subject is the one lying, whereas with laying there is something that is getting laid down.
(I am an English teacher and a tried and true grammar and spelling freak.
I love grammar... I honestly think it is very fun
To me it's like a very intricate puzzle. Send all questions my way!
I can find it a little frustrating...English is supposed to be one of the hardest languages to learn...glad it was my first language! LOL!
I love grammar... I honestly think it is very fun
I think that grammatically, English is probably the most difficult. Usually English and Chinese are quoted as the most difficult languages to learn, but as a speaker of both language, I personally think that spoken English is more complicated. The reason why Chinese is so difficult to learn is because the written language is so expansive as it has no alphabet. Grammatically, Chinese is not terribly complex. There are no tenses nor verb conjugations in most cases.
Spoken English was a breeze to learn. Written is a whole different ball game, between the grammar and spelling I was lost most of the time
I have never heard of zed before and didnt know that Canadians spell things differently than we do. I thought English was EnglishI took a test at an agency where they marked as incorrect my spelling of the word neighbour. I had to point out to them that this is Canada and in most of the English speaking world, neighbour is spelled "neighbour" and color is spelled "colour." The test was later graded correctly but I was surprised that an personnel agency would not know this. I was then further surprised to learn that most Americans do not know that most of the English speaking world does not say "zee" as the final letter of the alphabet. We know that they say "zee", yet they do not know that we say "zed", nor do they know that we spell our words differently. I actually had someone ask me what a "zed" was..
Lol there's English that a huge percentage of the world speaks and then there's "American"
I have never heard of zed before and didnt know that Canadians spell things differently than we do. I thought English was English
