Who wants to teach or learn about grammar?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

I may have seen on here, once or twice, unsolicited grammar lessons.

So I thought it would be naice to have a safe place for grammar help.

If you don't know your arse from your aspostrophe, or your stushe from your subordinate clause, please feel free to ask on here with impunity.

Also, if you can offer guildance on here, please feel free to pop along and gently steer.

I'll start with two questions and one lesson.

If I would like to say "Oh, yes, I went to their house, and had a super time" but wanted to miss out the word house, does their become "their's" or "theirs"?

I'm never sure which is correct in this instance - when at MacDonald's the pub and they ask "What drink do you want?", I'm always sure it should be "Which drink do you want?", but I can't articulate why. Please help.

And my mini lesson. The word "it's" is only ever used to denote missing letters, and not to indicate belonging/possession. So "the cat licked it's arse" is bang wrong.

We probably do with Bof here for her semi-colon masterclass.

Please come and join me for Grammar Fun but don't mention the typos.

tethers, you are a great argument for the inclusion of puctuation in MN nicknames.

I dare you to ask Tech.

St James's Park may well be a tube station in London, but given that the London Underground map has Earl's Court and Barons Court right next to one another, I'm not sure they can be trusted on apostrophes.

St James's Park is a park first and foremost surely?

Interesting about Barons Court tho, why no pos there....

Chaos, I'd be all over that shit.

My own name makes me cry inside.

Perhaps it was the Court of many Barons?

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This thread is making my head hurt. I though I had it down at the age of 35 . People who have any kind of grasp of written English as their second language are my heroes . It's a minefield.

Oh, yes. So it would. Drat.

I can never get my head around the correct usage of which and that - The bricks that are brown or The bricks which are brown.

And when to use me over I. Claire and me or me and Claire or Claire and I.

Will the CD conundrum ever be solved?

so late to this thread.

If I would like to say "Oh, yes, I went to their house, and had a super time" but wanted to miss out the word house, does their become "their's" or "theirs"?

I'm never sure which is correct in this instance - when at MacDonald's the pub and they ask "What drink do you want?", I'm always sure it should be "Which drink do you want?", but I can't articulate why. Please help.

theirs.
which because they are offering a choice where they have stated what is on offer.
it would be what if they hadn't already told you what's available.

and it's CDs, because CD is the name, and its plural is CDs (there are no missing letters, you see)

now i'm annoyed.

it's not C.D's - ffs - if there were dots, it would be C.D.s, but it's not (and not C.D.'s because that just looks bloody ridiculous).
CD is the accepted spelling.

mine
yours
his
hers
its
ours
yours
theirs

see.

bold problem...
in the olden days it worked over the carriage return.

mine
yours
his
hers
its
ours
yours
theirs

Change CDs for CVs and it is clearer I think

Curriculum Vitea in the plural is Curriculum Viteas

CDs and CVs
I got sent a bunch of CVs
John and Jane sent me their CV's though ????
back to confused

Yup Maryz curricula vitae is right.

We don't say MP's (plural) so why say CD's?

And Fowler's agrees.

thanks Maryz & Hearts.
nice work!

john and jane sent your their CVs.
it's the same rule.

and yes, in latin (full) it's curricula
"he plural of curriculum vitæ, in Latin, is formed following Latin rules of grammar as curricula vitæ (meaning "courses of life") or curricula vitarum (meaning "courses of lives")? not curriculum vita (which is grammatically incorrect). The form vitæ is the singular genitive of vita and is translated as "of life"."

*wikipedia

"and it's CDs, because CD is the name, and its plural is CDs (there are no missing letters, you see)"

This is how it should be nickel; yet I was challenged on here for making the very same point! I will try and find the thread. It was long, long ago...

Right. I want to say CDs, enough people on here say CDs, The CDs issue is now resolved.

ignore them

they are wrong, you are right.