Internet English Resources by Grammarly.com

Here is the one best example of
why proofreading after running
a spell checker is a smart idea.

Hi Gérard !
I don't understand the last one, could you help me please ?

Hi Muriel,

> "The proper uses and exceptions of Affect and Effect"
As often, therre's nothing funny in the posting of Grammarly.com.

As you know, English language has got many homophones, or say many words very close by their pronunciations.
As you know it, English speaking people spend far less hours on grammar than the French, so there're many misuses.

Thru this picture, Grammarly.com just points out EMTs very often confuse b/w Affect and Effect.
What EMTs don't learn on school chairs, they have to learn afterwards, or ignore it thru lives.
What is rather easy on school chairs becomes rather hard as people learn by chance, accidentally and without method. Anyway!

Here're several web pages re this confusion:
- Affect & Effect -Web-ku.edu
- Affect & Effect -YourDictionary
- Affect & Effect -About.com
- Affect & Effect -wikiHow
- Affect & Effect -Quick&DirtyTips

Thank you very much Gérard ! Your explaination was very clear !

You're welcome Muriel!

MurielB a écrit:Thank you very much Gérard ! Your explaination was very clear !

The spelling is "explanation" (but to explain), translating the difference in the pronunciations.

NB: pronunciation & to pronounce

gerardM a écrit:The spelling is "explanation" (but to explain), translating the difference in the pronunciations.

NB: pronunciation & to pronounce

 oups I should have been more careful ! Anyway thank you Gérard for this post and for correcting me !

Hi Gérard !


A thesaurus. I have an English one, which is a mine of treasures, and a great help when you look for the proper word. But I don't know whether you can find a similar one in French. Do you know of any ?

Let me point out exclamation points are rare in English.
I remember an American lady who sent me a Personal Message
about a text received from a French user;
she didn't understand any longer because
exclamation points showed the sender was very angry
but the words didn't show this.

gerardM a écrit:

Yes Gerard when you don't know a word, you can always use a phrase which is easier;

Hi Muriel,

I understood it differently.
As the guy is unable to spell "engineer" correctly, I guess he means: "Well I'm hopeless at spelling but you know my asset is math."

I think you're right.

gerardM a écrit:Hi Muriel,

I understood it differently.
As the guy is unable to spell "engineer" correctly, I guess he means: "Well I'm hopeless at spelling but you know my asset is math."

I think you're right.

Hi Gérard
There so many ways to understand things, you are also right.

Yeah but the examples above are not the source of mistakes.

I and my friend went... / Me and my friend went...
He's taller than I / He's taller than me

Hey don't learn!!

These are puns!!

I love "Polyglot"="More than one glot" - logical.

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How many of these errors do you need to stop making?

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Remember Grammarly.com is designed for EMTs.
So you can find here common mistakes they keep making.

gerardM a écrit:

It's true but they need a lot of space. A good e-book reader is great !

I'm afraid the guys at Grammarly.com wouldn't like your words

Four reasons why English improves your abstract thinking.

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“Moral: Even a well-bound book may be easily ruined at the first opening.”