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Topic: more grammar lessons

Posted By: haemphyst
Subject: more grammar lessons
Date Posted: February 05, 2009 at 12:06 PM

I guess since no teacher TEACHES anymore, (they seem to be nothing more than highly paid babysitters) and since parents dont seem to care either, I'll step in, because I *do* care...

than
–conjunction
1. (used, as after comparative adjectives and adverbs, to introduce the second member of an unequal comparison): She's taller than I am.
2. (used after some adverbs and adjectives expressing choice or diversity, such as other, otherwise, else, anywhere, or different, to introduce an alternative or denote a difference in kind, place, style, identity, etc.): I had no choice other than that. You won't find such freedom anywhere else than in this country.
3. (used to introduce the rejected choice in expressions of preference): I'd rather walk than drive there.
4. except; other than: We had no choice than to return home.
5. when: We had barely arrived than we had to leave again.

then
–adverb
1. at that time: Prices were lower then.
2. immediately or soon afterward: The rain stopped and then started again.
3. next in order of time: We ate, then we started home.
4. at the same time: At first the water seemed blue, then gray.
5. next in order of place: Standing beside Charlie is my uncle, then my cousin, then my brother.
6. in addition; besides; also: I love my job, and then it pays so well.
7. in that case; as a consequence; in those circumstances: If you're sick, then you should stay in bed.
8. since that is so; as it appears; therefore: You have, then, found the mistake? You are leaving tonight then.
–adjective
9. being; being such; existing or being at the time indicated: the then prime minister.
–noun
10. that time: We have not been back since then. Till then, farewell.
—idioms
11. but then, but on the other hand: I found their conversation very dull, but then I have different tastes.
12. then and there, at that precise time and place; at once; on the spot: I started to pack my things right then and there. Also, there and then.

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It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."



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Posted By: soundnsecurity
Date Posted: February 05, 2009 at 12:15 PM
good job, but you know what they say, ignorance is bliss except for those who have to deal with the ignorant

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Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: February 05, 2009 at 12:39 PM
You should also include "there and their", "you're and your", "to, too and two", "when to use a and an", "the apostrophy in an abbreviated year is '08, not 08' "... ;)

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Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: February 05, 2009 at 12:40 PM
...and yes, sometimes Y is a vowel. ...oO(which everyone should have learned in kindergarten)

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Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: February 05, 2009 at 12:46 PM
And while we're at it, please include a space after a comma and a period at the end of a sentence. ;)

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Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: February 05, 2009 at 3:44 PM
What is a sentence? 




Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: February 05, 2009 at 4:07 PM




Posted By: lspker
Date Posted: February 05, 2009 at 9:39 PM
dawg,(or trout if your Canadian) y u trippin.  Not like there tring to communicate, just a buch of monkies hitting the key board.




Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: February 06, 2009 at 11:07 AM
And whilst I'm here or hear no let's not go there or their, Craig a sentence is what you get when you go to prison for being a naughty lad.  And why have we closed the Peugeot post?   I was going to end up boring everyone with  why Harmon Kardon rather than Alpine supply BMW with speakers....cost, also Craig, I never knew you manufactured the sound systems for De Lorean.





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