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pinkee -> The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 12:19:49 PM)
Here's how it works. Y/you answer the question above with a definition and example and ask Y/your question for the next P/poster. Here's an example: "dependent clause" : a portion of a sentence lacking a subect and/or verb. E.g. " a cow in the pasture" Next question: what is a "gerund"? pinkee

mnottertail -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 12:25:43 PM)
a goat in a pasture?

pinkee -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 12:28:03 PM)
Play nice Ron, or i'll have to have another "little doll" made; still have the hatpins. pinkee

glidewynd -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 12:38:28 PM)
gerund: a noun formed from a verb e.g., "The choir's singing was beautiful." What is a "retronym"?

Wulfchyld -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 1:26:54 PM)
A nymphomaniac in a flapper girl dress?

glidewynd -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 1:30:02 PM)
Oh Loki...SOOOOO close! [sm=biggrin.gif]

pinkee -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 2:24:05 PM)
Retronym: A word or phrase created because an existing term that was once used alone needs to be distinguished from a term referring to a new development, as acoustic guitar in contrast to electric guitar or analog watch in contrast to digital watch. New phrase: "dangling participle" pinkee

Dustyn -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 3:13:49 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: pinkee New phrase: "dangling participle" pinkee Joke: The end result of not using enough toilet paper. Serious answer: a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view' New Term: En passant

Evanesce -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 5:58:43 PM)
quote: New Term: En passant "By the way," this is a chess term having to deal with pawn taking pawn or something like that that. I don't play chess much any more, so I'm a bit rusty on the terminology. To my knowledge, however, "en passant" is not a grammatical term, although it is generally used as a parenthetical phrase.

pinkee -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 6:00:31 PM)
En passant: In passing; by the way; incidentally. 2. Used in reference to a move in chess in which a pawn that has just completed an initial advance to its fourth rank is captured by an opponent pawn as if it had only moved to its third rank. i fail to see how this relates to English Grammar. Next question: Type and name all the English punctuation marks. pinkee

Dustyn -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 6:16:05 PM)
Usually it's reserved for chess, but I've seen it used in other forms, just not often... Exclamation mark - ! Period - . Comma - , Colon - : Semi-colon - ; Parantheses - ( ) Question Mark - ? Amperstand - & Asterix - * Squared brackets - [ ] Hypen - - Ellipsis - ... Solidus - / Tilde - ~ Underscore - _ Arrow Brackets - < > Sectional Brackets - { } (at least that is what I was taught to call them in high school) Quotation Marks - " " or ' ', depending on context of and usage in the sentence. I think that's all of them. New Term: Movement paradox

pinkee -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 6:29:48 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Dustyn Usually it's reserved for chess, but I've seen it used in other forms, just not often... Exclamation mark - ! Period - . Comma - , Colon - : Semi-colon - ; Parantheses - ( ) Question Mark - ? Amperstand - & Asterix - * Squared brackets - [ ] Hypen - - Ellipsis - ... Solidus - / Tilde - ~ Underscore - _ Arrow Brackets - < > Sectional Brackets - { } (at least that is what I was taught to call them in high school) Quotation Marks - " " or ' ', depending on context of and usage in the sentence. I think that's all of them. New Term: Movement paradox A movement paradox is a grammatical phenomenon which, particularly according to proponents of lexical functional grammar, presents some problems for a transformational approach to syntax. Take the following example sentences: We talked about the fact that he was sick for days. The fact that he was sick, we talked about for days. Additional punctuation marks: abut -- upside down "e" which i don't know how to make \ -- immediately preceding / -- immediately following + -- indicates M/many find the secondary promunctation flawed Merriam's 11th Collegate Dictionary Next word or phrase: "past perfect" pinkee

Lordandmaster -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 7:37:00 PM)
I really hadn't thought a game about grammar would prove to be so popular. "anacoluthon" Edited to add: Pink, sweetheart, you just copied the first paragraph from the entry on "movement paradox" in Wikipedia. That's not really fair--aside from the fact that you didn't explain what makes it a paradox. It's the NEXT example in the Wikipedia entry that explains the concept of movement paradox.

pinkee -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 8:36:06 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster I really hadn't thought a game about grammar would prove to be so popular. "anacoluthon" Edited to add: Pink, sweetheart, you just copied the first paragraph from the entry on "movement paradox" in Wikipedia. That's not really fair--aside from the fact that you didn't explain what makes it a paradox. It's the NEXT example in the Wikipedia entry that explains the concept of movement paradox. Sorry Lam....please eluidate. "anacoluthun" Main Entry:an£a£co£lu£thon Pronunciation:a-n-k-l-thn Function:noun Inflected Form:plural an£a£co£lu£tha \-th \ ; also -thons Etymology:Late Latin, from Late Greek anakolouthon inconsistency in logic, from Greek, neuter of anakolouthos inconsistent, from an- + akolouthos following, from ha-, a- together + keleuthos path Date:circa 1706 : syntactical inconsistency or incoherence within a sentence; especially : a shift in an unfinished sentence from one syntactic construction to another (as in you really oughtwell, do it your own way) –an£a£co£lu£thic \-thik\ adjective –an£a£co£lu£thi£cal£ly \-thi-k(-)l*\ adverb Merriam Wwbster's 11th Collegiate dictionary. "The editor was bestet my the author's anacolthun." What became of "past perfect"? pinkee

Lordandmaster -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 8:40:29 PM)
I said: "I really hadn't thought a game about grammar would prove to be so popular." quote: ORIGINAL: pinkee What became of "past perfect"?

pinkee -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 8:43:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster I said: "I really hadn't thought a game about grammar would prove to be so popular." quote: ORIGINAL: pinkee What became of "past perfect"? The Rules clearly state You must define the term and use it in a sentence, Lam. pinkee

Lordandmaster -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 8:49:07 PM)
OK, OK. The past perfect, or pluperfect, tense is used to indicate a time before a time in the past. You can say "I ate dinner," but you have to say "I had eaten my dinner before I took ipecac." "Had eaten" is in the past perfect tense.

pinkee -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 8:53:09 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster OK, OK. The past perfect, or pluperfect, tense is used to indicate a time before a time in the past. You can say "I ate dinner," but you have to say "I had eaten my dinner before I took ipecac." "Had eaten" is in the past perfect tense. i was taught that "past perfect" and "past pluperfect" were different tenses. Please eluicdate further. And what is the next entry? pinkee

Lordandmaster -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 8:55:05 PM)
Past perfect and pluperfect are the same thing. Past pluperfect doesn't exist.

mnottertail -> RE: The Game of English Grammar (6/8/2006 8:56:14 PM)
to say I was and am a dominate is pluperfectly perfidious........... Diagram that baby!!! LOL, Ron

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