That Annoying Grammar Person
Correcting your grammar, one meme at a time.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
I Hate To "Interrumpt" You...
Oooh, this one was so close!
But no, it's a fail. A very, very humorous one. I wonder if one could be arrested for "interrumpting," I mean would that be like, sentence rape? "Excuse me, I'm talking, don't rape my sentence with your interrumptions!"
Could Careless vs. Couldn't Care Less
Bitch, you don't seem to understand that your grammar is atrocious.
First of all, the phrase you are looking for is: "I couldn't care less." And not only did you phrase it incorrectly but you also used the WRONG word.
Care less and careless have two completely different meanings. Careless means to do something without care; not paying attention, doing something hastily with no regard to the result; careless. Care less, however, holds a different meaning and when you say you *could* care less it means that you are capable of caring more about caring less - I could care less, if I wanted to, I am capable of it.
What you really mean is you *couldn't* care less. If you couldn't care less that means you are incapable of caring any less about something than you already do - you have reached the lowest level of caring possible and could not care any less than you already do.
Think of it this way: Can and cannot. I can/could care less vs. I cannot/couldn't care less. Ask yourself, "Could I care less what you think about me? No, I cannot, therefore, I couldn't care less what you think about me."
Now, let's move on to about what/about me...It's just too much. Let's just re-write this entire meme so that it sounds good and you actually seem like a force to be reckoned with. Here:
BITCH, you don't seem to understand that I really couldn't care less what you think about me.
Ooooh, SNAP! It sounds good and it's forceful.
I do give you credit for using a comma correctly.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Re-elected vs. Relected
This one is pretty simple: "Re-elected" means elected (chosen by way of vote) again; "relected" isn't even a word. Also, there should be a comma after "Me".
Then vs. Than
Today we will learn the difference between the words "Then" and "Than". The easiest way to remember the two is probably this: "Then" deals with time or order while "than" deals with preference or comparison.
Ex: I am going to brush my teeth THEN shower.
Ex: I would rather brush my teeth before I shower THAN after.
Now, you try. See if you can identify the problem with this meme (this one may seem a bit tricky since we're dealing with time and comparison, so think carefully):
Did you find it?
In this meme, "then" is incorrect because despite the thought of running away occurring more often now as opposed to then (time), we need to look for the comparison, which is now, as an adult rather *than* "when I was a kid."
To make it even easier, completely eliminate "as an adult" from this meme and read it simply as, "...more often now than when I was a kid." Sounds good, amirite? Here we are comparing the time between childhood and adulthood - now, rather than before.
Now, still eliminating "as an adult" from the meme, read it again using "then" instead of "than":
"...more often now then when I was as a kid."
Now that just doesn't make any sense, does it? It sounds as if you are saying, "...more often now, then when I was a kid," as if after you think about it as an adult, you'll think about it as a kid - you are implying you're going to magically time travel back to when you were a kid to think about running away. And, even if you could do that you'd do it so you could...wait for it...COMPARE the amount of time you now spend on thinking about running away to the time you spent thinking about running away when you were a kid.
Final answer:
Ex: I am going to brush my teeth THEN shower.
Ex: I would rather brush my teeth before I shower THAN after.
Now, you try. See if you can identify the problem with this meme (this one may seem a bit tricky since we're dealing with time and comparison, so think carefully):
In this meme, "then" is incorrect because despite the thought of running away occurring more often now as opposed to then (time), we need to look for the comparison, which is now, as an adult rather *than* "when I was a kid."
To make it even easier, completely eliminate "as an adult" from this meme and read it simply as, "...more often now than when I was a kid." Sounds good, amirite? Here we are comparing the time between childhood and adulthood - now, rather than before.
Now, still eliminating "as an adult" from the meme, read it again using "then" instead of "than":
"...more often now then when I was as a kid."
Now that just doesn't make any sense, does it? It sounds as if you are saying, "...more often now, then when I was a kid," as if after you think about it as an adult, you'll think about it as a kid - you are implying you're going to magically time travel back to when you were a kid to think about running away. And, even if you could do that you'd do it so you could...wait for it...COMPARE the amount of time you now spend on thinking about running away to the time you spent thinking about running away when you were a kid.
Final answer:
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