ANSWER: "sit" versus "sat" versus "set."

Tuesday, 6 October 2015 00:29
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Happy Monday, Fandom Grammar watchers! Today, we’ll be answering a question submitted by one of our watchers, [livejournal.com profile] lanalucy:

“What are the differences between ‘sit,’ ‘sat,’ and ‘set?’”

An excellent question as both writers and readers tend to mix up these three—particularly “sit” and “set”—quite a bit. Lara and the rest of the characters of Tomb Raider will help us discover the answer.

( And the answer is just under this cut: )
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Friday Funnies: Language Nerd

Friday, 3 April 2015 11:13
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xkcd shows us why the language nerds shall rule the Earth: it's gotta be those mad linguistic skills!



Hovertext: Not to go all sentence fragment on you.


To become an Earth-ruling language nerd yourself, pop over to our "parts of speech" tags, peruse our "Grammar 101" tag, or have a peek at a couple of articles from About.com and NYTimes.com to read up on verbing nouns, adverbing adjectives, nouning verbs, and adjectiving nouns, etc.
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Answer: Singular or Plural with Numbers and Related Words

Tuesday, 10 June 2014 21:07
chomiji: Tenpou from Saiyuki Gaiden. with the caption Not necessarily by the book (Tenpou - Not by the book)
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An anonymous requestor asked us, "Should nouns following a number other than 'one/1' be plural? What about 'no' or 'zero' —should the noun be in plural form? Is there any case when a noun following 'no' or 'zero' stays singular?"

( With the help of the cast of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series ... )
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Friday Funnies: "How and when to use 'whom' in a sentence."

Friday, 4 October 2013 16:56
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The Oatmeal brings us a, erm, unique but nonetheless effective lesson on the correct use of the word whom:


Check out the full lesson here.

For further reading on the subject (or object, as it were), you can read the original Fandom Grammar lesson on the difference between who and whom here as well my entry on the HijiNKS ENSUE comic addressing this difference here.
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Foul-Mouth Friday: "shi"--err, "the s-word."

Friday, 3 August 2012 21:21
[identity profile] achacunsagloire.livejournal.com
It’s Friday, and you know what that means, dear watchers: it’s time for another Foul-Mouth Friday!

In this edition of Foul-Mouth Friday, we’re moving from the bedroom to the bathroom to take a look at a word that is vulgar not only in its usage but in its very definition: shi—excuse me, the s-word.

To help us better understand this, erm, indecent word, we’re also going to look at some examples of its usage in Kevin Smith’s View Askew film series.

( Now let’s click on the cut for more shi—I mean, information. )
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Answer: Hyphenating Compound Words

Monday, 30 March 2009 18:24
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Anonymous asks: Is there a rule of thumb about hyphenating compound words?

With examples from Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, and Heroes.

( Short answer? Not really. For a slightly longer answer, take a peek under the cut )
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Grammar 101: Subject-Verb Agreement

Sunday, 1 March 2009 11:36
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Grammar 101: Subject-Verb agreement with examples from Ouran High School Host Club, Harry Potter, and Panic at the Disco.

First things first! In order to be able to tell if the subject and verb in your sentence agree with each other, you must be able to pick them out. The subject will generally be the easiest thing to identify, since it is the noun, pronoun, or phrase anchor that the rest of the sentence is tethered around. If you’re still not sure, another way to identify the subject is to ask ‘who’ or ‘what’ the sentence is talking about.

( And up goes the note, while down goes the stupid boy! )
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Answer: Compound Plurals

Monday, 15 December 2008 21:24
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[livejournal.com profile] theantipam asks: What are the rules for compound words and plurals?

With examples from Stargate SG-1 and Harry Potter

( Spoonfuls of sugar make the medicine go down… )
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Grammar 101: Nouns, pronouns, and conjunctions.

Monday, 24 November 2008 10:12
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[identity profile] momebie.livejournal.com
Grammar 101: Nouns, Pronouns, and Conjunctions with examples from Harry Potter, bandom, and Cowboy Bebop.


Nouns

The word noun comes from ‘nomen’, which is a Latin word meaning name. The noun, as we know it, is a word used to signify a person, place, animal, thing, event, substance, quality, or abstract idea. The following sentences display some of the more basic examples of nouns.( The following sentences display some of the more basic examples of nouns. )
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