proper grammar

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The Difference Between Than and Then

6precious102 @6precious102 (4043) • United States 15 Feb 12

Is grammar not taught in school any longer? Why, all of a sudden, have people started using than for then and then for than? If your grammar teachers haven't taught you the difference, let me. From the "St. Martin's...

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Spell Check

tenacity1 @tenacity1 (8) • United States 9 Dec 09

I am relatively new to myLot but I have already noticed an area of concern. I hate to critique small things, but this seems to be an increasing problem in society and on the Internet. I'm talking about spelling and grammatical...

professional writing

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Are you proper on the internet?

rzrback @rzrback (107) • United States 3 May 09

Do you use correct grammar on the internet and myLot? I try to, but I see a lot of people who don't bother with doing anything like capitalization. Nothing wrong with this just want to see how many people do and don't.

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Do you use grammar and spell checker software to edit ?

crazypumpkin @crazypumpkin (501) • Philippines 18 Jun 07

Anybody who actually bothers to check my profile will know that I like to write. I usually post my work on some of the forums I frequently visits and on my blog. A few days ago somebody tactfully told me that although she likes my...

one day write a novel

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Dus it annoy ne1 else when ppl u no type like this ??

JenHen @JenHen (5) • United States 23 Feb 07

Not to trash anyone or anything, but this sort of thing drives me a bit mad. I skip over posts, blogs and the like when I see this sort of thing. Is it REALLY that hard to just spell out a word? Is this just young kids that do...

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Proper Grammr/Spelling

helpful_ideas @helpful_ideas (1620) • United States 5 Dec 06

As long as you can understand the gist of what is being said and you can see a reasonable effort has been made to communicate, why do people make such a big fuss over grammar and/or spelling? Live journal even has an entire...

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