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Do you ever intentionally use the incorrect grammar because it looks/sounds better? Ex. (“9” instead of “nine”, or “me and my brother” instead of “my brother and I”)
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Anonymous 18h

I don’t put punctuation on the inside of quotation marks unless it was in the quote, Idk why it’s a thing to be like: Hey did you hear him say “I like movies?” Makes it sound like he isn’t sure if he likes movies or not

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Anonymous 18h

Ok 9 is not incorrect

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Anonymous 13h

i have a literal degree in english and have no idea how 9 is grammatically incorrect…

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Anonymous 17h

Technically as long as the idea is communicated effectively it isn’t incorrect grammar it’s just not like, the canonized grammar

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Anonymous 16h

I use two spellings of paid. Payed for past tense preterite and paid for past tense participle. He payed his dues. His dues are paid / Have his dues been paid? I swear by ain’t being a real word. I invent my own contractions that make sense most of the time. (Tam for I am is one that does not). I make my own idioms. (“I’m spinning” = I’m going crazy).

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Anonymous 3h

I’m an architecture major and I had a professor that used to make me change things to make them incorrect because it looked better on the page. Particularly with punctuation and capitalization.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16h

Depends.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 11h

I can’t remember what number but you’re supposed to write them out in most formal writing up to that number

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11h

ohhh in that case it’s after 10 that you stop writing out the full number

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