Affect/Effect Your/You're

Bigkat said:
💡💡 DISCLAIMER I AM AN AUTHORITY ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 💡💡 IGNORE "of these"in the previous poster's sentence. Because, that is a prepositional phrase☝🏾. Based upon proper grammatical rules, a prepositional phrase can be removed from a sentence and still read correctly☝🏾. In essence, the sentence should read💡💡 "None ___ that big of a deal etc .." Based upon the context, of the point he was trying to convey, ARE is most likely correct (referring to a group or many).
SAMPLE EXAMPLES 📝📝.
Question: Are there any oranges left?
Response: No there are none.
Explanation: ARE is used because ORANGES IS PLURAL☝🏾.
Question: Is my hat there?
Response: No it IS gone
Explanation: IS IS USED BECAUSE "HAT" IS SINGULAR 💡
SUBJECT/VERB AGREEMENT
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99% of the posters in this forum, are experts at everything....just axe them!
 
bbb said:
if the definition of these is "the plural of this"
then i would think these ARE is correct not these IS
JMHO
MY MOM WAS NOT AN ENGLISH TEACHER
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If the intent of "none" is NOT ONE, then it's correct to write "none of these is that big of a deal". But if "none" is meant to be NOT ANY, then writing "none of these are that big of a deal" would be correct.

So, in other words... it can be plural or singular.
 
My favorite is when I hear someone incorrectly use "I" and "me" in order to sound smart or proper. I don't correct them, but inside I smile and cringe at the same time. Lol.

Here's a prime example.... "Would you like to go to dinner with Jane and I?"

It should be "with Jane and me", or "with me and Jane"... Not "Jane and I".
 
David in FL said:
A genteel southern woman and her husband were hosting a welcome party for a couple who were newly arrived to the neighborhood.

Making small talk with the new-to-the-south woman, she asked “Where are y’all from?”.

The woman, with a bit of a stuck-up, haughty, attitude responded “We‘re from a place where we don’t end our sentences in a preposition.”.

The southern lady, not the least bit put off, responded ”I’m sorry. Where are y’all from, bitch?”.

😁
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Northern woman says “you can.”
Southern woman says “y’all can.”
 
Rickhem said:
And remember, ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of. 😄
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When Winston Churchill was chastised for ending a sentence with a preposition, he wittily responded. “This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.” Churchill's retort illustrates that attempts to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition can be labored and ludicrous
BC21 said:
My favorite is when I hear someone incorrectly use "I" and "me" in order to sound smart or proper. I don't correct them, but inside I smile and cringe at the same time. Lol.

Here's a prime example.... "Would you like to go to dinner with Jane and I?"

It should be "with Jane and me", or "with me and Jane"... Not "Jane and I".
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Or use myself when a simple I would do. Cleon Jones used to do that all the time on Kiner's Korner, and even as a 12 year old it annoyed me.
 
BC21 said:
My favorite is when I hear someone incorrectly use "I" and "me" in order to sound smart or proper. I don't correct them, but inside I smile and cringe at the same time. Lol.

Here's a prime example.... "Would you like to go to dinner with Jane and I?"

It should be "with Jane and me", or "with me and Jane"... Not "Jane and I".
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Take out the two words before "I". "Would you like to have dinner with I," and it is obvious.

This one has taken over America. I doubt it will ever be corrected in polite society.


Jeff Livingston
 
BC21 said:
If the intent of "none" is NOT ONE, then it's correct to write "none of these is that big of a deal". But if "none" is meant to be NOT ANY, then writing "none of these are that big of a deal" would be correct.

So, in other words... it can be plural or singular.
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I agree with this, and much of my job is editing narrative reports written by others. Some people have a hard time grasping the idea of ignoring the preposition.

When I post a help wanted ad, I always ask for a cover letter in addition to a resume. I ask for the letter to see if a candidate has a basic understanding of English, but you'd be surprised the number of people that can't follow the simple instruction to provide the cover letter.
 
KissedOut said:
Because the expression was "I could not care less" but people got lazy in how they say it.

My pet peeves is using it's as a possessive, when it is actually a contraction of it is. It is particularly annoying when I use it correctly and autocorrect inserts an apostrophe, which it seems to do universally. It is as if autocorrect thinks there is no such word as its, just it's.
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I could care less, but if I did I wouldn't even have commented about it...

Jaden
 
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