Grammar Lovers and Experts... - Page 3

bri20 · ‎03-10-2016

I've never heard anyone say "Do not you"

WenGirl42 · ‎07-05-2012

@bri20 wrote:
I've never heard anyone say "Do not you"

Maybe Shakespeare...or Yoda.

MaggieMack · ‎10-01-2014

After the safety issue had been addressed due to its importance, I would have been a little perturbed with a DIL correcting my grammar. I would never have entertained the thought of correcting my MIL's grammar, no matter how necessary it seemed. In fact, I wouldn't correct anybody's grammar. I recognize errors, but nobody is paying me to be the grammar police.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

Day1128 · ‎06-27-2010

First, I would have a BIG cocktail. Then I would have used do not next to each other, since the contraction for do not is don't.

Yardlie · ‎03-10-2010

@MaggieMack wrote:
After the safety issue had been addressed due to its importance, I would have been a little perturbed with a DIL correcting my grammar. I would never have entertained the thought of correcting my MIL's grammar, no matter how necessary it seemed. In fact, I wouldn't correct anybody's grammar. I recognize errors, but nobody is paying me to be the grammar police.

I understand what you are saying. I wouldn't have corrected my MIL either. My DIL actually is very sweet. She and I discuss grammar rather frequently just because she has a degree in it, and English was always one of my favorite subjects in school. It kind of drives my husband nuts when we get into a grammar discussion, but it drives me nuts when he and my son discuss football...so we just tolerate these little discussions.

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. ~~ Steve Maraboli

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

Chelsea Handler has a grammar segment on her new show on Netflix. The skit is introduced by Kelsey Grammar, LOL. On the last one she did a riff on how there is no such word as" irregardless". She does it in a funny way, and I appreciate it because my gaammar knowledge has deteriorated over the years.

" You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Jacie · ‎01-09-2011

I would probably have been a smart aleck and addressed him as "Your Highness" for the rest of the evening....it's the way we roll.

"Cats are poetry in motion. Dogs are gibberish in neutral." -Garfield

Isobel Archer · ‎04-04-2015

Do you not think or don't you think are both perfectly fine.

Do not you think - sounds like Yoda or some other bad translation of English.

KentuckyWoman · ‎03-13-2010

It's charcoal, lighter fluid, toss match, run. Your DIL is correct by the way.

I have used the phrase "do you not". "did you not" or "will you not" many times in my life even though it is incorrect. Usually I was angry or annoyed at (1) kids, (2) husband, or (3) kids and husband at the same time since they all think alike because they are all male.