Bad Grammar on boards....

Saruman · 29-05-2006 11:16am #1

Whats wrong with this:
I was walking down the street when their in the middle of the road i noticed a bunch of people standing. There faces were in shock they where looking up. So i looked up myself and their standing on the roof of a building was someone who was abut to jump. I thought to myself were are the police?

OK what is wrong with what i just wrote off the top of my head?
And is it just laziness or lack of education that leads so many people posting on boards to use the wrong grammar?

I do NOT mean typos (probably have some in thuis post myself!) and i do not even mean someone who is not the best speller. I mean using "There" when they clearly mean "Their" etc etc.

Clearly im bored.. better go do some work

whiskeyman · 29-05-2006 11:18am

Saruman wrote:

. I thought to myself

I've seen taught in here a few times.....

As long as it's not txt spk, I dont care!

Tobias Greeshman · 29-05-2006 11:19am

Or there when they mean they're!! aarrrghhhh :mad:

grimloch · 29-05-2006 11:20am

Well it's not taught properly in any schools I've been to. Even if you gave no more than a cursory glance to any group of English pieces, you'd find loads of grammatical errors.

Whether it's laziness of a lack of education, I wouldn't be too sure.

ball ox · 29-05-2006 11:29am

I can't see why so many people on here get so hung up on other peoples grammer. If someone uses bad grammer and it annoys you then don't read their posts.

fuzzywiggle · 29-05-2006 11:34am

ball ox wrote:

I can't see why so many people on here get so hung up on other peoples grammer. If someone uses bad grammer and it annoys you then don't read their posts.

lol

singingstranger · 29-05-2006 11:35am

@OT: used 'their' in place of 'there' twice, and 'were' instead of 'where'.

Saruman wrote:

I was walking down the street when their in the middle of the road i noticed a bunch of people standing. There faces were in shock they where looking up. So i looked up myself and their standing on the roof of a building was someone who was abut to jump. I thought to myself were are the police?

I was walking down the street when, there in the middle of the road, I noticed a bunch of people standing. Their faces were in shock; they were looking up. So I looked up myself and there, standing on the roof of a building, was someone who was about to jump. I thought to myself, where are the police?

...and that's just a spelling thing with some commas thrown to help read it. Some clauses could have been thrown around again to make it more fluent.

Tobias Greeshman · 29-05-2006 11:41am

... So I looked up myself, and there standing on the roof...

would read better, tbh.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 29-05-2006 11:42am

I think they should just replace 'there', 'their', and 'they're' with 'der' and be done with it.

BArra · 29-05-2006 11:44am

there is a certain poster on here that goes by an alias of a rapper, and he posts on every and any thread he can, more often than not its usually pointless drivel, but i find it agitating to read anything he writes! gets on my nerves for some reason !!

J.R.HARTLEY · 29-05-2006 11:50am

singingstranger wrote:

@OT: used 'their' in place of 'there' twice, and 'were' instead of 'where'.

I was walking down the street when, there in the middle of the road, I noticed a bunch of people standing. Their faces were in shock; they were looking up. So I looked up myself and there, standing on the roof of a building, was someone who was about to jump. I thought to myself, where are the police?

...and that's just a spelling thing with some commas thrown to help read it. Some clauses could have been thrown around again to make it more fluent.

i think his example was supposed to be showing the kind of gramatical errors that upset him, he typed it incorrectly on purpose.

Pigman II · 29-05-2006 11:51am

Oh who cares!

I only found out last Saturday when exactly one is supposed to put an apostrophe before an s and when one puts it after. I thought this acquired knowledge would be the beginning of a exciting new grammatical era for me. However my life hasn't felt significantly richer since I'm sorry to report.

fade2black · 29-05-2006 11:54am

Try saying it in your mind as you write. If you take a pause, put in a comma. There are a lot of other things that are just common sense and will get better the more you read and write.