Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Just a Small Grammatical Note

(or a large one, as the case may be...)

A LOT IS TWO SEPARATE WORDS!!!
...A................LOT
ALWAYS
.
Okay, my tyrannical inner grammarian is appeased...for now.

12 comments:

Avalanche Cowpoke said...

I'll allot your space to say thet.

Booker said...

my goodness, who set that off? One of us, or one of your darling students? :-)

drewey fern said...

Well... The most recent time I saw it was on a poster at school. But it's all over the world! Aaaaaaaggghhh!

CKS said...

Grace would be proud of you!

(or any Yacoubian for that matter...)

ljm said...

Have you read, "Eats, Shoots and Leaves?"

drewey fern said...

I just bought that book last summer, Liane! Great book:)

Laughter said...

Ooo, that book makes me subliminally happy.

:-D

redsoxwinthisyear said...

Thanks, teach. I might add that my grammar pet peeves include the wrong use of "their" or "there," or "it's" and "its".

Aaron said...

Alright, I'll try to remember the difference. ;-)

drewey fern said...

I agree, Chad! Also, it drives me crazy when my students add apostrophes to pluralize a word. (They saw four car's in the parking lot.) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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