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14 years ago @ The Truth About Grammar - Stay Smart, Georgia · 1 reply · +1 points

The State is not asking the company what list it shipped. Read it again. The company ships computers to customers. The State wants a list of customers to which the company sent products.

Therefore, it wants to know the details of orders that were shipped. Unfortunately, it asked for details of orders that was shipped.

14 years ago @ The Truth About Grammar - Many Fathers Celebrate... · 0 replies · +1 points

And why not make Juke Joint a different color in addition to bolding, italicizing, and placing in single quotation marks?

14 years ago @ The Truth About Grammar - Want to Appear Illiter... · 0 replies · +1 points

No, you don't get it.

Which of the following sound(s) correct?

A) Eating 100 lollipops will rot your teeth.
B) Eating a 100 lollipops will rot your teeth.
C) Eating a hundred lollipops will rot your teeth.

and

I) 1001 Nights
II) A 1001 Nights
III) One Thousand and One Nights

Review the rules of indefinite articles, numerals, and numbers.

-Jeff

14 years ago @ The Truth About Grammar - From the George W. Bus... · 0 replies · +1 points

Companies are people. Supreme Court ruled so.

14 years ago @ The Truth About Grammar - Costomes for Costomers · 0 replies · +1 points

Hah, good eye! Looks like I need new glasses.

14 years ago @ The Truth About Grammar - Semicolons Are Female??? · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks, asshole, but that doesn't explain how a semicolon is like a woman with loose morals. Also, why not use your real e-mail address?

14 years ago @ The Garage - The Buick Regal · 0 replies · +1 points

Paragraphs . . . please!

15 years ago @ The Truth About Grammar - Who needs the unecessa... · 2 replies · +1 points

When writing a headline, it's acceptable to pluralize a single letter with an apostrophe. Consider if the unnecessary letter was A. "Who needs the unecessary As" is confusing without context, no?

I'm surprised no one has commented on the unecessary n I omitted from unnecessary.

15 years ago @ The Truth About Grammar - For Insurance Fraud? · 0 replies · +1 points

It might be standard, but it's not good.

15 years ago @ The Truth About Grammar - I'm This Close to Givi... · 0 replies · +1 points

I laughed, too . . . and then I weeped.

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