'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled?
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It's "its," by the way.
This is the grammar thing I fuck up the most, and I don't call people on it because I'm pretty sure I don't know how it works. Autocorrect changes it & I just say "oh, whoops", and it still looks wrong...
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Spanish is awesome. All its verbs in their regular form do end in "-ar", "-er" and "-ir".
The conjugations can get as weird as English sometimes, though. Case in point: Ser.
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This is the grammar thing I fuck up the most, and I don't call people on it because I'm pretty sure I don't know how it works. Autocorrect changes it & I just say "oh, whoops", and it still looks wrong...
wrote last edited by [email protected]Here's a shortcut: test if you could drop "his" into the same spot and have it make sense. (And of course you'd never write hi's or his's.) If "his" would work, "its" would work.
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What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/) (I couldn't find the link to the actual comic)Reed, red. Homophones should be homographs too.
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What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/) (I couldn't find the link to the actual comic)its, not it's.
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This is the grammar thing I fuck up the most, and I don't call people on it because I'm pretty sure I don't know how it works. Autocorrect changes it & I just say "oh, whoops", and it still looks wrong...
it's means "it is". It is really not difficult, just pretend you are Data and swear off contractions.
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The conjugations can get as weird as English sometimes, though. Case in point: Ser.
"que sera sera" es un ejemplo.
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it's means "it is". It is really not difficult, just pretend you are Data and swear off contractions.
I think the contraction vs possesive thing messes with me, and my brain can never settle on what goes where when, how, or why...
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What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/) (I couldn't find the link to the actual comic)Where, were, we're. Even native speakers have problems with this. I don't know how many times I had to correct such cases, especially with American authors.
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What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/) (I couldn't find the link to the actual comic)Reed and Red
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I think the contraction vs possesive thing messes with me, and my brain can never settle on what goes where when, how, or why...
Just try changing it to "it is". If the sentence still makes sense, it's "it's". Otherwise it's "its".
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What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/) (I couldn't find the link to the actual comic)They should be spelled the way they currently are.
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Reed, red. Homophones should be homographs too.
What dialect of English will we base the new spelling system on?
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Wait until you hear about how we pronounce colonel!
What about parmesan?
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Where, were, we're. Even native speakers have problems with this. I don't know how many times I had to correct such cases, especially with American authors.
Where, were, we’re.
I never had a problem with those, until I started with stuff like Reddit.
Now, I find myself making the mistake and catching it in proofreading.
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Me too, thanks!
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That would explain why a pencil, which contains a "lead" (actually a polymer or graphite now) is Bleistift
Some call it differently because it doesn't contain lead anymore but Bleistift is still the common name
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Where, were, we're. Even native speakers have problems with this. I don't know how many times I had to correct such cases, especially with American authors.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I pronounce these all differently though? [wɛɹ], [wəɹ] and [wiɹ]
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Where, were, we're. Even native speakers have problems with this. I don't know how many times I had to correct such cases, especially with American authors.
Pretty much only native speakers have problems with this, I see this type of mistake far less frequently with those who learned English as an additional language.
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Pretty sure the past tense of "lead" is actually "led."
Unless of course you're referring to the type of metal, lead, which I guess the meme isn't clear on.
What's not clear? It's written right there!
