Basic Elements of English
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American English
I before E except after C
The famous rhyme is wrong.
Here’s why…
Use words with caution
“I could care less”
means you DO actually care…
Take care with the expressions you use!
“Literally”
means Actually
or without
exaggeration
An English professor wrote the words:
“A woman without her man is nothing”
on the chalkboard and asked his
students to punctuate it correctly.
All of the males in the class wrote:
“A woman, without her man, is nothing.”
All the females in the class wrote:
“A woman: without her, man is nothing
”Punctuation is powerful
I like
cooking my family
and my pets.
Use commas.
Don’t be a physcho.
The Amazing English Language
You can have my Oxford comma
when you pry it from my cold,
dead, and lifeless hands.
Also known as the serial comma.
Then there are those who claim
In British English we have the Exclamation Mark.
In American English this is called a Bang.
In American English they have merged the interrogative point
(question mark) and the bang (exclamation mark) into an
informal device called an Interrobang
It is a cool (but nonstandard) punctuation.
Interrogative point (?)
(British - Question Mark)
+
Bang (!)
(British - exclamation mark)
= Interrobang
The Interrobang is used in an emphatic rhetorical question
There is no known British use of this punctuation symbol