分类目录归档：grammer
You've probably seen an email or an internet post
about how weird and random English spelling seems to be.
But what if I told you that it actually makes perfect sense?
In fact, that's spelling's job:
now I have any of y'all ever looked up
this word you know in a dictionary but
yeah that's what I thought um how about
this word
you know I'll show it to you
lexicography the practice of compiling
dict
It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis.
It looks like a comma crossed with a period.
Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti.
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Me, myself, and I.
You may be tempted to use these words interchangeably
because they all refer to the same thing,
but in fact, each one has a specific role in a sentence.
"I" is a subject pronoun,
"
You're telling a friend an amazing story,
and you just get to the best part when suddenly he interrupts,
"The alien and I," not "Me and the alien."
Most of us would probably be annoyed,
but aside from