soliek

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“aye all persons must drastically improve their grammar herein and hereafter”

or else 😛

“soliek….!!!”

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“You are allowed to start sentences with ands or buts. It does not automatically create a fragment like your teachers in grade school claim.”

they claim it because many times it does create a fragment as it can just as easily be appended to the previous sentence. what they dont tell you is that sometimes fragment sentences are acceptable when used properly and not always does and but or because at the start of a sentence create a fragment.

I’m teaching someone how to write–someone whose entire knowledge of the English language and its usage comes from an elementary school and GED education, both of which focus heavily on grammar but not enough on theory. So I gave him a book by Stanley fish on writing and he came over to me every minute or so, pointing out various “grammatical errors” like a seemingly misplaced comma, or an ‘and’ at the beginning of a sentence, and I eventually had to explain all this to him and tell him to chuck everything that his prior education had taught him regarding the English language.

this is actually from a lesson i gave two days ago 😀 i had so much fun giving it that i decided to turn it into an article 🙂

Well we don’t have enough money to actually pay for your see services, but contact someone from the our place site and get involved 🙂

well i didnt wanna go into that when i wrote this post because it wasnt he focus but im maskim to what you said. in other words when god closes a door he opens a window…

i mean take my life as an example…also it depends what you see as the challenge in other words in my case it was dealing with a bipolar mother, and in that regard it was too much for me, but then there was another nisayon and that was getting on with my life and that happened because of various other tools that i had such as friends and writing and the internet (mitzvah habaah b’aveirah perhaps…thats a discussion for a different day)

but yeah im maskim to what you said i just didnt have the space to add that in without getting sidetracked

“Talk about waxing philosophical. This is no regular can of lemon Pledge you are using here. lol”

i laughed a lot at that 😀

im sorry i forgot. if someone can find it and post it id appreciate it, i remember seeing it. it relates to avraham and his nisyonos and the leviyim being chosen for the avodah because they were not nichshal in the chet ha’egel…if i recall correctly…i could be wrong, and if i am ill gladly change it 🙂

Raphael Kaufman: you saw the context of my post, i don’t think i have to explain what i meant. I’m not going to nitpick on finer details because i think you got my point as well.

“I just love those rare moments when things start out with, “Joseph Stalin once said….” lol

Great first line.”

its all about the first sentence 🙂

you’re quite welcome 🙂 these are all straight off the Our Place blog which i run…since the mods won’t allow me to post a link i just make a new thread every time i have something id like to share from that blog 🙂

thanks for the help 🙂 and if you know of anyone in the B/flatbush area who would be willing to give of their time for a good cause…send them to Our Place…we are in desperate need of more professional volunteers

that part i know, and im not looking to get one, nor am i, baruch hashem, on the receiving end of one. someone im working with will have one issued against him either today or tomorrow and i need to know about the process…what will happen to him, how long does the process take…stuff like that

i read that actually msseeker, i was really bored. you could start a thread about that which is what i usually do when i want to comment on a news item. i post a link to the story with my opinion. id rather not have this thread hijacked with that discussion, but id be more than happy to discuss it in a different thread