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Article #398Re: A little off-topic help.
From: Clive 9ai26
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
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get a life Peter G. Strangman wrote in message <3547b5a2.57139246@news.demon.co.uk>... >A number of people seem to get confused with: >"hear", "here", "there" and "their". > >Just remember: >that you hear >with your ear. > ^^^ >Remember that here >goes with there. > ^^^^ >That only leaves "their", meaning "belonging to them". > >Remember also that the apostrophe in "you're" means >that something has been left out, it is a contraction >of "you are", thus leaving "your" as meaning "belonging >to you". >Likewise for "they're", a contraction of "they are" and >"it's", a contraction of "it is". > >When considering "yours", "theirs" "its" etc. remember that >"our's" is the exception requiring an aposrophe. > >Sorry about that, but the rules are simple enough and >easily learned. It seems that they are no longer taught >in our schools. 8-( > >-- >Peter G. Strangman | Leser, wie gefall ich dir? >Peter@adelheid.demon.co.uk | Leser, wie gefaellst du mir? >http://www.adelheid.demon.co.uk | (Friedrich von Logau) >XLIV-DCCCII-CCXII-DCCCXXXI |
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f76f2,5af93775e9ed2d0d X-Google-Attributes: gidf76f2,public X-Google-Thread: 114575,5af93775e9ed2d0d X-Google-Attributes: gid114575,public X-Google-Thread: 10db0e,5af93775e9ed2d0d X-Google-Attributes: gid10db0e,public From: "Clive 9ai26" <9ai26@dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: A little off-topic help. Date: 1998/04/14 Message-ID: <6h0j4m$j13$1@plug.news.pipex.net> X-Deja-AN: 344067620 References: <3547b5a2.57139246@news.demon.co.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Organization: UUNet UK server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet UK) Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,uk.telecom,demon.homepages.authoring