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Here's a game for the grammar nazi in all of us. Or for those of us who do not yet have a grammar nazi, but would like to develop one: make a post with a grammatical error somewhere in it. The next poster to successfully find your grammatical error gets to post the next grammatically flawed post and so on. Poster who places an error which no one can find wins!
I'm sure there's already a grammatical error in my introduction to the post, but I'm gonna add an obvious one that my English professor is always yelling at me for, just in case.
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That comma is incorrectly used. Technically, however, grammar nazi would certainly argue that punctuation errors are not considered grammar errors.
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You use the singular form of 'grammar nazi' without the indefinite article 'a' before it.
What's more, the 'real' grammatical error in my previous post has still been undiscovered. Therefore, the same error exists in this post as well.
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Thank you, rivka. There is nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition, splitting an infinitive, or if you begin sentences with conjunctions. These are all natural English phenomena that have been around for centuries and are used even by those who poo-poo them.
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(I was going for what the past-present issue. I also agree that splitting an infinitive, ending a sentence with a preposition, and beginning a sentence with a conjunction are all silly things to prohibit. I just figured if this is the game for elitist grammar-nazis, you'd include silly rules like those. Maybe we should clarify the rules some more. )
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Too many commas! Isn't there any grammar errors that don't involve commas? Anyone?
(I have four, count 'em, four grammar errors outstanding in this thread. Come claim 'em, if you can.)
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I think subject-verb agreement has been known to be somewhat problematic, if you don't agree just check out Mike's post.
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Why don't you play to the Chicago Manual of Style. I mean, who gives a crap about an Oxford Comma anyhow?
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This thread is enraging. There are a whole bunch of posts with intentional and unintentional errors followed by a slew of response posts also containing intentional and unintentional errors and correctly or incorrectly pointing out errors that may or may not exist. These are errors that the original poster may or may not recognize as errors. It make a grammar Nazi long for a bullet in the brainpan in a bunker in Berlin.
Edit: I didn't intentionally include any errors; that means nothing.
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