I am a "Wren and Martin" person and yet.........
@allknowing (153529)
India
January 10, 2017 10:26pm CST
My grammar is good as we strictly followed the Wren and Martin text book. Having said that I occasionally get stuck with the prepositions - 'to' and 'for' But thank God for little mercies myLot does not mind. Nevertheless, there are places where these things matter.
What do you get stuck with?
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@valmnz (17095)
• New Zealand
11 Jan 17
My goodness, that is a wonderful looking old book. I've never heard of Wren and Martin. There are quite a few things I mix up from time to time. Which is why I take my offline writing seriously enough to edit it often. I use a couple of New Zealand style books for my editing.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
11 Jan 17
I have this grammarly that drives me round the bend to the extent that even there is more than a space between words I will see a red line. Having said that may be when I do my blogs that would come in handy but not here where anything and everything is allowed (lol)
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@valmnz (17095)
• New Zealand
11 Jan 17
@allknowing which is jut as well 
I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses careless grammar here!
I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses careless grammar here!2 people like this
@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
11 Jan 17
When i post here i am always in a hurry so sometimes i just edit when it finally published and saw my mistakes .
Anyway , i think myLot isn't much into our grammars because they know that most of us have our full time job to attend before coming here .
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
11 Jan 17
Not a nice place to practice perfect English though 
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
11 Jan 17
@SIMPLYD But if you continue to ignore writing correctly it will become a habit with you.
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
11 Jan 17
@allknowing That's okay for me . At least i gained a lot of friends here . Besides , i just write to earn some and relax , not to make it my full time job .
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
11 Jan 17
With how many pp and ss there can be in English as there are only one lot in Spanish so sometimes I forget all about the commas too.
Spanish is a phonetic language so you don´t need two letter p´s say in a word.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
12 Jan 17
@allknowing
Oh yes like I said I forget or am not sure how you spell something and I have to go and look it up and the same goes for Spanish its not an easy language either. I mean for fun okay you can learn a few words but then comes the more difficult parts too and I still work on that most days here and there.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
12 Jan 17
Those whose English is not their first language could have issues. Having said that, I have noticed even those native speakers have issues.
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@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
11 Jan 17
Mine would be "relate to" vs. "relate with". I've never heard of that book in the picture, but I really love the old-school cover!
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
11 Jan 17
It matters. Here is an example "I went to the theater" "I went for a show" But it is not that easy many times.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
12 Jan 17
@Mike197602 Oh no!!! I did it right then. My grammarly pointed it out and so changed it. I am confused. I any day prefer Engish, English 
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@Mike197602 (15504)
• United Kingdom
11 Jan 17
@allknowing theater is american english...in english it is theatre
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@jyotiu28jul (403)
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11 Jan 17
I also have read this book. Although I was never interested reading the book. I opened it only during the exams.
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
11 Jan 17
@allknowing Of course,I too am familiar with that text book.But I can't come up with what I get stuck with.Some time back I used to spell some words wrongly,even when I knew the spellings.I will write 'occassion' and correct it to occasion.So also
'sperate 'for 'separate'.
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