Grammar lesson, it'...

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  1. Gandire Alea

    Gandire Alea [Wicked Awesome Translator]

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    Okay, grammar lesson.

    It's is for "it is."
    It's is not "it was."
    "Its" is for showing ownership.

    Understood??

    If so, then click here~
    If not, then click here~

    Note: clicking will not explain anything further
     
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  2. UnGrave

    UnGrave ななひ~^^

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    'twas is short for it was though
     
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  3. One Perfect Veteran

    One Perfect Veteran [ICL] [Bureaucat] [Cereal Killer]

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    Clickbait! How dare you?!
     
  4. Gandire Alea

    Gandire Alea [Wicked Awesome Translator]

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    It's an important grammar lesson
     
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    One Perfect Veteran [ICL] [Bureaucat] [Cereal Killer]

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    Well, maybe? Are you irked at someone for using its as it was?
     
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  6. Gandire Alea

    Gandire Alea [Wicked Awesome Translator]

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    Not by one person, just seeing it used wrong multiple times by various people
     
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  7. elengee

    elengee Daoist Ninefaps

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    Mostly sounds like archaic English you'd see in Shakespeare though.
     
  8. canaria23

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    Tim Burton is what comes to my mind more
     
  9. asriu

    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    it was this cat!
    hehehe
    it's toy, isn't it refer to whoever have the toy that refer to "it" similar to Pete's toy which mean Pete own the toy? or "it" cannot have thing to own? poor "it" ~
     
  10. IceLight303

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    I have fallen for it many times but now I have learned my lesson.
     
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    elengee Daoist Ninefaps

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    Yeah i couldn't come up with something accurate but it's like 'Twas the night before Christmas' like a Charles Dickens story or something. Except i've never read it so i only remember narration from some movie, which is obviously open to human error of interpretation of the original work.
     
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  12. Zeusomega

    Zeusomega M.D of Olympus Pvt Ltd. Seeking [Boltzmann brain]

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    Tis but its,
    Wherever you see it's its,
    The sky and the land,
    Everything is its.

    Praise be to thee,
    For we are its,
    Nothing but its.




    :blob_coffee: english mastered.
     
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  13. That One Average Fellow

    That One Average Fellow Well-Known Member

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    Threads like these are the reason one shouldn't immediately click hyperlinks, its a trap. (◑ ○◑)
     
  14. Jojo775

    Jojo775 Honorary Algae Knight

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    That's "high level", a third of even native English speakers can't even get your/you're, their/there/they're or definitely/defiantly right.
     
  15. Gandire Alea

    Gandire Alea [Wicked Awesome Translator]

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    high level, but easy to fix
     
  16. Bad Storm

    Bad Storm no thought, head empty

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    I usually get these two wrong when my autocorrect decides to meddle and I didn't notice it before it got posted. Then, my lazy ass self just couldn't be bothered to fix it...
     
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    Eh these people don't care, they even go out of their way to find MTL's and raws to google translate instead of finding thousands of other fanfics and web novels with decent grammar.
    I find that bad grammar correlates with rock bottom standards.
     
  18. Gandire Alea

    Gandire Alea [Wicked Awesome Translator]

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    agreed, 99% anyway. If it only happens a few times, and as an exception, then it probably just slipped past the editor's eyes
     
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  19. Lissi

    Lissi 『Queen of Lissidom』『Holy Chibi』『Western Birdy』『⚓』

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    Ah... really? I never thought about "it was" XD
     
  20. Gandire Alea

    Gandire Alea [Wicked Awesome Translator]

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    When read on the translations, it won't make sense any other way >.>