Tuesday December 25, 2012
Grammar couplets
By OH TEIK THEAM
THE smart pupil’s correct answer earned the English teacher’s praise: “Everyone is a pronoun; every one is a pronoun phrase.”
“Could you please explain to us the difference between you’re and your, Mr Brown?”
“Well, you’re is the contraction of you are; your is a possessive pronoun.”
The teacher said with a smile, “You are absolutely right, Jean. The ‘to be’ verbs are be, am, is, are, was, were, being and been.”
Although he has had many years of formal schooling, he doesn’t know that a young goose is called a gosling.
When the English teacher asked for a simile from Todd, the bright boy replied, “As alike as two peas in a pod.”
“This idiom is funny,” says Joe.“ ‘Tell me about it’ means ‘I know’!”
She wrote five clipped words on her pad: Memo, typo, flu, fridge and grad.
With “o’clock”, we spell out the number. It’s ten o’clock – time for my slumber!
The new pupil failed to get a perfect score, not knowing that the past tense of see is saw.
This is a proverb fine: A stitch in time saves nine.
> After retiring from handling numbers at the bank, the writer now moves to new writing ‘destinations’ using GPS (grammar, punctuation, style).
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