Comments for Celebrity English

Comment on run-on sentences by euge

euge — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:21:45 +0000

muy kop!

Comment on lay/lie by Obisesan Oluwaseun E

Obisesan Oluwaseun E — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:46:05 +0000

It has been of serious help. Thanks a lot

Comment on Good job! Giselle uses a possessive pronoun with a gerund by smedley

smedley — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:02:03 +0000

Using celebrity quotes to teach grammar … bizarre, but also quite nifty!

Comment on complementary/complimentary by smedley

smedley — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:00:05 +0000

lol, this one is always confusing

Comment on pronoun/antecedent agreement by nicky

nicky — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:44:17 +0000

thanks for this…

Comment on subject/verb agreement by Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:45:12 +0000

I learned one new strategy for this.

Thank you so much.

Comment on possessive forms and gerunds by Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:31:53 +0000

The more I browse through this site, the more I understand my weaknesses.
thanks.

Comment on could of/should of/would of by me

me — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:41:05 +0000

I’ve noticed it a lot on message boards in the last few years.

Comment on indefinite pronouns by ridhi pareek

ridhi pareek — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:26:39 +0000

i felt problem in pronoun now everything is allright after read ur short notes thanx

Comment on verb tense sequence by Muhindi

Muhindi — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:20:26 +0000

would like to be in tauch and share in Language learning development.

I like your presentations and contents.

Comment on Jennifer makes an error in parallelism by Britney Wannabe

Britney Wannabe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:10:04 +0000

Of all of the celebrity flubs, this one stood out to me as the most egregious. Very interesting that you’ve posted these here. Now I need to carefully guard my comments for fear of dangling a participle.

Comment on Samuel makes an error in modifier confusion by George Stough

George Stough — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:41:33 +0000

Ian,
In your example, “I wanted to point out his error real bad.” there are two errors. It should read “really badly”.

Real and bad are adjectives. No matter how often you hear these words misused informally it is still incorrect usage, and sounds offensive (uneducated) to anyone knowing better.

Comment on Paris makes several errors by Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:08:46 +0000

Paris Hilton are, like, weirdness!!

Comment on everyday/every day by clarina

clarina — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:58:27 +0000

What a beautiful site!!!

Comment on possessive forms and gerunds by Harprit

Harprit — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:23:16 +0000

This is probably the best comment on line that helped me distinguish the possessive and objective form of pronoun.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers
-Harprit

Comment on whoever/whomever by kadarian

kadarian — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:45:12 +0000

The following answer appears on your site and is incorrect. The relative pronoun that can refer to people, animals, and things. “In the noun phrase “girl that lives with no regrets,” the relative pronoun “that” refers to “girl.” This is incorrect because “that” should be used to refer only to animals and things. The subjective relative pronoun “who” should be used to refer to a person.”

Comment on whoever/whomever by kadarian

kadarian — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:31:36 +0000

What is your answer to:

Everyday he is responsible for desensitizing degradation of whatever and (whoever, whomever).

Thanks

Comment on Samuel makes an error in modifier confusion by Ian Clifton

Ian Clifton — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:13:50 +0000

Isn’t “bad” acceptably used as an adverb in informal speech/writing? Phrases like “bad enough” (e.g., “The grammar guru wanted it bad enough that s/he could taste it.”) or “real bad” (e.g., “I wanted to point out his error real bad.”) are fairly common. If that is a quote from him speaking at any informal occasion, I wouldn’t think twice about it. If it is written, on the other hand, that’s a different story.

Comment on could of/should of/would of by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:55:16 +0000

This is a bigger problem that I’ve been noticing recently. On CNN, they showed a humorous tape of a phone call and the phrase that displayed on the screen read “should of”. It infuriated me that CNN, a world-class news organization can’t catch these stupid errors!

Comment on personal pronouns by Nour

Nour — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:27:49 +0000

i love ur syt ! it ias so helpful .. thanks alot !

Comment on former/first and latter/last by English tip: former/first and latter/last

English tip: former/first and latter/last — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:48:13 +0000

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Comment on lay/lie by Tom Garth

Tom Garth — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:32:46 +0000

Thank you. This has been very helpful. You have been very helpful.

Comment on personal pronouns by reibin

reibin — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:40:12 +0000

your website is not so exciting and i cannot understand your explinations..i really dont like it..sorry

Comment on adjectives used to describe tone by abhishek

abhishek — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:18:39 +0000

wow! this piece in particular and the website in general proved to be extremely helpful for my high school english class…thanks!

Comment on Dakota chooses an adjective instead of an adverb by winrow

winrow — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:35:19 +0000

You’re right, Otto. Her statement was made in an informal context. However, this site is geared towards preparing students to take standardized examinations and write according to the rules of standard American English.

Comment on Dakota chooses an adjective instead of an adverb by otto

otto — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:54:48 +0000

Meh. While proper grammer is required for written items, casual speech is not as exact. Give the girl a break.