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Petzel

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Sorry but I can't handle the constant incorrect spelling of these simple words. We're all grown people who supposedly completed high school and so many don't know how to spell properly.

Their: The possessive as in their house, their car, etc.
They're: The contraction of the 2 words of they and are.
There: The building is over there.

Two: The number 2
Too: As in also........they have it too
To: I'm going to the mall.

Your: The possessive as in your house, your car
You're: The contraction of the 2 words you and are

We're: The contraction of the 2 words we and are
Where: Where is the job?

Who's: The contraction of who is
Whose: Whose cell phone does that belong to?

Remember not to use a contraction if the 2 words said aloud do not make sense in the sentence.
 
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shack

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Petzel said:
I can't help it. Ever since I majored in English it's like a compulsion.
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Better suck it up because no matter how many times you tell them they're/their/there still gonna make the same stupid errors.
 
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Doug

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Yes sir(s), it is a mess. One could make a full time job at major newspapers or such, if they had interest in being correct. A friend of mine was a proofreader engaged at a local newspaper but they decided that the new 'puters were perfect spellers now that they came equipped with spellcheck. Or is that spellcheque?
Are we being petty? I say no.
You didn't dare mention "it's", or other abuses of the apostrophe.
 
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Petzel said:
Sorry but I can't handle the constant incorrect spelling of these simple words. We're all grown people who supposedly completed high school and so many don't know how to spell properly.

Their: The possessive as in their house, their car, etc.
They're: The contraction of the 2 words of they and are.
There: The building is over there.

Two: The number 2
Too: As in also........they have it too
To: I'm going to the mall.

Your: The possessive as in your house, your car
You're: The contraction of the 2 words you and are




We're: The contraction of the 2 words we and are
Where: Where is the job?
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Let us not even get into the word wear.
 
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OddSox

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Petzel said:
Sorry but I can't handle the constant incorrect spelling of these simple words. We're all grown people who supposedly completed high school and so many don't know how to spell properly.
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High school? The problem goes a lot further than that...

Plus, as soon as I see those mistakes in a post, I skip to the next one. It doesn't matter what they're saying, if they can't say it properly I am not interested. (by the way, the improper use of commas is okay with me)
 
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Stormchaser said:
Please clear up the uses of Lie, laid, lying, lay,layed
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First of all there is no such word as layed so let us take that out of the equation.

Lie and lay are both present tense verbs.
Lie: as in someone tells a lie.
Lying: She is lying to you!
Lay: is as in someone lays down.

Lied and laid are past tense verbs.
Lied: as in she lied to me.
Laid: as in we both laid down.

Got it?
 
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Thanks man

I found this as well.....


Lay or Lie?

Lay means "to place something down." It is something you do to something else. It is a transitive verb.


Incorrect: Lie the book on the table.
Correct: Lay the book on the table.
(It is being done to something else.)


Lie means "to recline" or "be placed." It does not act on anything or anyone else. It is an intransitive verb.


Incorrect: Lay down on the couch.
Correct: Lie down on the couch.
(It is not being done to anything else.)


The reason lay and lie are confusing is their past tenses.

The past tense of lay is laid.

The past tense of lie is lay.


Incorrect: I lay it down here yesterday.
Correct: I laid it down here yesterday.
(It is being done to something else.)

Incorrect: Last night I laid awake in bed.

Correct: Last night I lay awake in bed.
(It is not being done to anything else.)


The past participle of lie is lain. The past participle of lay is like the past tense, laid.


Examples: I could have lain in bed all day.
They have laid an average of 500 feet of sewer line a day.


Layed is a misspelling and does not exist. Use laid.
 
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simon482

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do were really need to bother making we are into a contraction. you do it when writing to make a little easier no doubt. really though it is 1 extra space and not to damn hard to do. i can understand they're sort of but not even that. all you are doing is changing the a to an '. are you really this lazy that you have to change an a to an '.
 
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