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Post by lucklemony on Feb 13, 2004 13:34:34 GMT -5
spiderwick sucks. period.
what does the word tornamont mean? what an excellent use of grammar your displaying.
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Post by DetectiveDupin on Feb 13, 2004 13:40:30 GMT -5
Typical coming from you. Have you heard of a capital letter.
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Post by awpoue on Feb 13, 2004 13:44:07 GMT -5
Heh, lucklemony, you're very funny. Fancy looking through all the threads just to look for something to diss Dupin with?
But that's a little off topic. I don't mind the books. I mean, they were a little short but definitely readable. They aren't really like ASoUE at all.
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Post by Cupid on Feb 13, 2004 13:50:06 GMT -5
spiderwick sucks. period. what does the word tornamont mean? what an excellent use of grammar your displaying. I really don't care either way (in reference to spelling and grammar) but there is one thing that gets on my nerves. There is a difference between your and you're. It is incorrect to say "what an excellent use of grammar your displaying". Instead you should say what an excellent use of grammar you're displaying. You would use your in case of possessions.. like your coat, your bed, your dog. You're means you ARE. You wouldn't say your displaying because Dupin doesn't possess "displaying", so you should say "what an excellent use of YOUR grammar YOU'RE displaying." Likewise "Hehe...youre bad grammer makes you the perfect couple!" is incorrect. You wouldn't say "you are bad grammar makes you" unless of course Dupin was calling you bad grammar. Instead it should be YOUR bad grammar makes you and Aloha the perfect couple. But maybe Dupin knows the difference between you're/your and was making a pun about YOUR bad grammar. dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/t/there-their.htmlQ. What is the difference between there and their? Your and you're? How can I remember these?
A.: Their and your are possessive forms used as modifiers before nouns. They basically mean "belonging to them" and "belonging to you," respectively: "their problem," "your idea." You're is a contraction of "you are": "You're doing fine." And there is a word functioning in various parts of speech, but basically referring to a place: "Your umbrella is over there."
You can remember their by noting that it looks like they, except the y is changed to i and an r is added at the end. If you keep this in mind you also won't spell it thier. You can remember your by noting that other pronouns also have possessive forms that end in an r: her, our, their. Also note that no possessive pronoun contains an apostrophe. (This should also help you in making the distinction between its and it's.)
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Post by DetectiveDupin on Feb 13, 2004 13:51:11 GMT -5
spiderwick sucks. period. what does the word tornamont mean? what an excellent use of grammar your displaying. Oh, and besides, thank you. I know my grammar's great! Yeah, if you think about it, the books aren't like ASoUE. The beggining of the first one is sot of. I've read the second. It all about faeries.
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Post by lucklemony on Feb 13, 2004 18:40:12 GMT -5
i didnt mean it like "oh, what and excellent. . . '' i meant it in a sarcastic way like ''what an . . .'' smirking.
cupid, does it look like i care?
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Post by ŘỠßëřŦ on Feb 18, 2004 15:50:35 GMT -5
Aren't those the books with all the magical creatures? They're really stupid!
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Post by lucklemony on Feb 19, 2004 21:14:37 GMT -5
a very cheap imatation of snicket.
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Post by White Wolf on Mar 16, 2004 20:44:00 GMT -5
o.o you guys just need to read them, theya rnt as good as Snicket, but they get up there, they are for younger kids, and have some good content, you somtimes jsut have to give a book a chance, and i think the authers, had the artist of ASOUE do they`re covers, thats what i remember, but you guys jsut need to read them, they re pretty good!
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Post by The Amazing...Spider-Man! on Apr 7, 2004 4:25:24 GMT -5
i like them
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Post by Antenora on Apr 8, 2004 19:22:46 GMT -5
I have read the first SpiderWick book. Thought it was pretty lame. However, they aren't a Snicket rip-off plotwise, it's just that the cover designs and pictures have a similar look. Sample line from the first:"What ferret makes his own gross knick knacks?" Remember that these books are intended for younger children. Younger than me anyway.
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Post by Snicket on Apr 8, 2004 22:54:17 GMT -5
I have read the four and I think they are preety good not a snicket ripoff plotwise but the first one isn't as good as the rest.
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Post by Antenora on Apr 10, 2004 9:26:35 GMT -5
The story of the SpiderWick books is very different than that of Snicket's tales. The Spiderwick books involve "faeries", which is how some people insist on spelling "fairies", in order to sound impressive. What is the proper spelling of "fairies", anyway? I like the FAERIES spelling; somehow it's more "authentic". Makes me sound like I know what I'm talking about.
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Post by lucklemony on Apr 10, 2004 9:28:37 GMT -5
i havent read any of the books and i dont want to.
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Post by Gwendolyn on Apr 12, 2004 22:21:31 GMT -5
i havent read any of the books and i dont want to. Same here.
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