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Interesting grammar facts you may not have known


Champion RD92

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It seems like a lot of people have trouble with grammar, so I thought I'd share some grammar tips that you might not have known before.

 

 

1. Affect vs. Effect

 

-Affect is used as a verb.

-Effect is used as a noun.

 

 

2. Farther vs. Further

 

-Farther is used for measurable distances.

-Further is used for abstract distances you can't measure.

 

 

3. Lay vs. Lie

 

-Lay is used when there is an object involved. (Example: I lay the cup on the table.)

-Lie is used when there is no object involved. (Example: I lie on the bed.)

-Lay is the past tense of Lie (Example: Yesterday, I lay on the bed.)

-Laid is the past tense of Lay (Example: Yesterday, I laid the cup on the table.)

 

 

4. Ensure vs. Assure

 

-Ensure is used to imply a guarantee that something will happen.

-Assure is used to imply the removal of doubt from someone's mind.

 

 

5. Who vs. Whom

 

-Who is used as a pronoun for the subject of the sentence.

-Whom is used as a pronoun for the object of the sentence.

 

 

I hope these tips are useful for you guys! :)

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Here is another useful grammar tip about something that I see people mess up all the time, especially in Roleplays.

 

When it comes to quotation marks and punctuation, people often make mistakes.

 

First rule:

 

-Periods and Commas ALWAYS go inside quotations, even if it's a single quote.

 

I.e.

 

He said, "Hand me the basket."

 

She said "He said 'Hand me the basket.'"

 

Second rule:

 

Question marks' usage is based on common sense, for example, if you wished to denote that somebody asked you something, you would say it like this:

 

He asked me, "Has anybody seen my keys?"

 

If you're asking somebody about a quote that is anything but a question, it would be done like this:

 

Did he just say "That snake is biting my face"?

 

An important thing to remember is that if you're using a question mark like in the above example, you don't use a period or comma inside the quotation marks.

 

If you're asking somebody about a question, use only one question mark, and put it in questions, like this:

 

Did he just say "Why is this snake eating my face?"

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I'm swedish and I feel awesome for knowing all of these :3

 

(though I always do wrong with the who/whom thing xD)

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