Thu Dec 22, 2005, 11:51am
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Originally posted by Back In The Saddle
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Originally posted by Blind & lovin' it
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Originally posted by bob jenkins
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Originally posted by Blind & lovin' it
Should of went to the community college. Why take "Electromagnetics 315" when "Big Words and how to make them up 101" is available?
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Should "of" taken English 101.
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Ok, you have stumped me. Why is the "of" in quotation marks? The sentence I began with "Should of" is a fragment sentence, but I believe the "of" part is correct. Unfortunately, I must admit, my mother is a high school English teacher and all four of her sons cannot tell a adverb from a pronoun. We remain productive in society only with the assistance of the spelling and grammer checkers available on word processors today.
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Classic case of the shoemaker's kids going barefoot apparently  What Mr. Grammar Guy was getting at is that your statement should properly have begun with the phrase: "Should have." I'll go one further, your statement should properly have begun with the phrase: "Should have gone." But hey, I'm just an upstart, wannabe Mr. Grammar Guy, filling in during the holidays 
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Correct. I was going to write " Should 'of gone and done tooked' English 101," but I thought that would have been piling on. 
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