Jerald M Powell
Hooray! I second all that she just said... and would also ask that
folks put their real name on their... (not they're, OR there) posts...
Thanks
Jerry Powell
At 9:00 AM -0800 03/06/03, Candi Murray/Oregon Bicycle Racing Assn wrote:
I changed some of the locations to make it more appropriate
Number Nazis are nothing. The Grammar Nazis are rising up in anger.
"Your" is the possessive for of "you" as in "your car," "your bike" or "your
camera".
"You're" is a contraction of "you are" as in "You're going to have a good
finish in your race."
"Its" is the possessive form of "it" as in "The camera didn't come with its
correct battery."
"It's" is the contraction of "it is" as in "It's going to be a long day
since the camera came without its battery."
"To" is a preposition, as in "I'm going to Banana belt and I'm going to
choke
the next person who complains about the camera."
"Too" is an adverb used as in "There is way too much garbage online by
people who haven't gone to the trouble to find out about the camera and its
difficulties."
"Two" is a number, as in "My two cents" or "I was number two but the camera
didn't see me because it came without its proper manual."
"There" is a preposition, used as in "I heard about the problems in Cherry
Pie
and I wasn't there but here's what I think anyway."
"They're" is the contraction of "They Are", used as in "They're spending way
too much time online carping about problems they haven't gone to the trouble
of learning about."
"Their" is the possessive form of "They", used as in "Their finish was
properly scored, but they're spending way too much time online carping about
the race not being scored to fiftieth place, which is funny since nearly all
the riders after tenth sat up or had their numbers on wrong and no one could
read them, with or without a camera."
GOT IT?!?
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Jerry Powell
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