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The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 12:19:49 PM

pinkee

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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"?

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 12:25:43 PM

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a goat in a pasture?

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 12:28:03 PM

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Play nice Ron, or i'll have to have another "little doll" made; still have the hatpins.

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 12:38:28 PM

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gerund: a noun formed from a verb
e.g., "The choir's singing was beautiful."

What is a "retronym"?

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 1:26:54 PM

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A nymphomaniac in a flapper girl dress?

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 1:30:02 PM

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Oh Loki...SOOOOO close!

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 2:24:05 PM

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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"

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 3:13:49 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: pinkee

New phrase: "dangling participle"

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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

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 5:58:43 PM

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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.

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 6:00:31 PM

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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

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 6:16:05 PM

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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

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 6:29:48 PM

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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"

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 7:37:00 PM

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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.

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 8:36:06 PM

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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.

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Main Entry:an£a£co£lu£thon
Pronunciation:*a-n*-k*-*l*-*th*n
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 ought*well, 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"?

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 8:40:29 PM

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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"?

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 8:43:11 PM

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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.

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 8:49:07 PM

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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.

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 8:53:09 PM

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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?

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 8:55:05 PM

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Past perfect and pluperfect are the same thing. Past pluperfect doesn't exist.

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RE: The Game of English Grammar - 6/8/2006 8:56:14 PM

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to say I was and am a dominate is pluperfectly perfidious...........
Diagram that baby!!!

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