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Re: Proper Grammar

• PugsAce 1,825 Posts

  Sat, Jan 1 2011 10:27 AM

  Ha-Haaaaa!

  Happy New Year back atcha, Jake!

  Back in grammar school, I learned the value of proper grammar from an English teacher who despised the chewing of bubble-gum in class.

  By reciting his "list of prepositions" in record-time (7 seconds I believe it was) , I went from wearing the offending Bazooka Joe on the end of my nose to being able to chew it in class for a week!

  What made the "feat" more meaningful to my classmates was that, unbeknownst to Mr Massaro, I did it while having a double-dose of the pink-pulp in my mouth! lol :],

   

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Sat, Jan 1 2011 11:57 AM

  Too funny, Pug. The things that stick with you years later. Mine happens to be the list of 23 helping verbs, memorized in the 6th grade under penalty of the torture they allowed back then in school.    

  Is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been, has, have, had, do, does, did, shall, will,should , would, may, might, must, can and could. 

  LMAO-my long dead English teacher would be sooo proud.  :-D