{"id":803,"date":"2005-04-15T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T05:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2008-07-15T19:58:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:58:56","slug":"grammar-police-chick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"Grammar police chick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, what the hell is wrong with you bloggers? And by YOU, I mean everyone on the internet, not my dear readers. Let&#8217;s go over this again: fish is the plural of fish; it is not &#8216;fishes&#8217;. Well I guess it can be, but it really shouldn&#8217;t. :)<\/p>\n<p>An apostrophe does not follow something that should be plural just because it happens to look nicer. For instance, it&#8217;s not &#8220;I have 10 DVD&#8217;s,&#8221; it&#8217;s DVDs. Does it look a bit weird? Yes, but it is correct.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, you are supposed to do something, not suppose to do it. I know I don&#8217;t have perfect grammar, but I learned the basics in school and they should not be that difficult to remember. <\/p>\n<p>Another pet peeve of mine: people who break up a single thought into several incoherent sentences. It&#8217;s called a comma! Learn it, use it, love it. <a href=\"http:\/\/webster.commnet.edu\/grammar\/quiz_list.htm\">Here is a list of interactive quizzes you can take to hone your grammar skills<\/a>. Call me a dork, but I love this stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, what the hell is wrong with you bloggers? And by YOU, I mean everyone on the internet, not my dear readers. Let&#8217;s go over this again: fish is the plural of fish; it is not &#8216;fishes&#8217;. Well I guess it can be, but it really shouldn&#8217;t. :) An apostrophe does not follow something that should be plural just because it happens to look nicer. For instance, it&#8217;s not &#8220;I have 10 DVD&#8217;s,&#8221; it&#8217;s DVDs. Does it look a bit weird? Yes, but it is correct. In addition, you are supposed to do something, not suppose to do it. I know I don&#8217;t have perfect grammar, but I learned the basics in school and they should not be that difficult to remember. Another pet peeve of mine: people who break up a single thought into several incoherent sentences. It&#8217;s called a comma! Learn it, use it, love it. Here is <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=803\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}