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Please, help me with English

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by slisse, Apr 19, 2019.

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  1. londonboy49

    londonboy49 Trusted.Member

    Yep .... why nit pick
     
  2. whitecoffee1

    whitecoffee1 Moderator Staff Member

    Just couldn't ignore that obvious detail.
     
  3. londonboy49

    londonboy49 Trusted.Member

    It gets boring with you doing it each time
     
  4. whitecoffee1

    whitecoffee1 Moderator Staff Member

    If you don't like it or find it boring, just ignore it.
     
  5. londonboy49

    londonboy49 Trusted.Member

    Shall do
     
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  7. whitecoffee1

    whitecoffee1 Moderator Staff Member

    German guy A: "Did you play the new Tomb Raider game?"
    German guy B: "Yes, but tomb is pronounced like "toom"."
    German guy A: "Oh, ok."
    German guy A: "By the way, did you heard they found an unexploded boom from world war 2?"
     
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    Neophyte Administrator Staff Member

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  11. slisse

    slisse Moderator Staff Member

    Is it
    Stand there at my left
    or
    Stand there to my left
    or
    is it something else?
     
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  12. Dracoa

    Dracoa Trusted.Member

    My understanding, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, is that "at my left" means like right beside the person speaking, "to my left" can mean the same thing, but also can be further away and would depend on the context. If you are having people line up in two lines, say against opposite walls, "to my left/right" would be used.
     
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  13. Akbloke

    Akbloke Ex Pig-Fixer "Videmus Agamis"

    And to my understanding...I would say "to my left". This would be because I was raised to talk the "Queens English" and not the English as spoken by those on the "other side of the pond". Americans not only spell English words differently, they also are now at the stage where they are saying and phrasing words differently, and yet still claim that it is correct English. American English is becoming completely different language, and yet, they will have you believe that theirs is the correct one. Most of them cannot differentiate between, their, there, there's they're. They use the word 'my' when they should use 'me'....

    And this is because this is where they're at. ;):D
     
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  14. Neophyte

    Neophyte Administrator Staff Member

    Its "Stand here at my left"
    or "Stand there to his left"

    You use here if referring to yourself and there if you are referring to someone else.
     
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  15. vjagan

    vjagan Trusted.Member

    words fail me to appreciate the quality of this post, friend !
     
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  16. Brutus58

    Brutus58 Trusted.Member

    I have to admit that English was my worst subject in highschool. Now that I think about it, math was my worst and English my second worst. So I ended up going into the medical field.
     
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  17. slisse

    slisse Moderator Staff Member

    Thank you.
     
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    Neophyte Administrator Staff Member

     
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  19. slisse

    slisse Moderator Staff Member

    Recently I heard and saw

    the king and I
    my son and I


    Why is I used and not
    the king and me
    my son and me
     
  20. Neophyte

    Neophyte Administrator Staff Member

    Its based on what pronoun the subject noun can be replaced with. If you can replace the noun with 'he', then it is 'I', if you can replace the noun with 'him', then it is 'me'. 'King' must be replaced with 'he' so the following pronoun is 'I'.
     
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