Pronouns for people and animals
Check out the debate as to whether “irregardless” is a real word, and also find out about the different types of dictionary.
Collective or group nouns in general and “companies” in particular and the pronouns used to refer to them.
Using contractions in formal writing:
2 comments:
On the Quick and Dirty Tips website, a girl is talking about proper word usage. The two words that she is mentioning are: that or who. Which ones of them can be use properly? Lets look at "The girl (that/who) have long hair buy more scrunchies". By reading what the girl has to mention on the website, she said that neither one of them can be used wrong. For the sentence, I would use the word 'have' because it just sounds more clearer.
When you see a word like 'irregardless', does this mean the word is a proper word? No, a word like 'irregardless' will not be found in the dictionaries because it has a suffix --- less --- at the end of the word. The suffix, less, is taking place 'ir'.
There are many styles of writing and through another site a girl was talking about contractions. In some styles of writing we should not use contractions. Contractions are like: don't, I'm, doesn't, and wouldn't. The website are telling us that for formal writing, we should not use contractions; but, in some novels we do see the use of contractions. Commonly we will not use contractions in our writing, unless someone is saying something, and this will go inside of quotation marks.
Thanks for the explanation, Roland!
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