EDUCATE YOURSELF: To, Too, Two.

A little while ago I posted a cartoon clearly highlighting the differences between your and you're and how noobs who can't get it right irk me to my core. I then received some awesome pics from blog readers on the indieBerries Facebook page:

Hot dang! I love the indieBerries gang!

So, to further educate the masses 

(and mainly because I cannot help the grammar-nazi-enthusiast trapped inside me) - 

They are very different and non-interchangeable.

Now - I'm only saying this once, 

so you'd better concentrate.

So, in the most basic explanation - 

As a simple and very basic test you can exchange "too" with "as well" 

if it makes sense, use "too"

if it doesn't make sense, use "to"

 

No.

Only the crazies say that.

Are you a crazy?

no.

 

Got it?

Great.

Moving on.

How MANY?
The answer to this is a NUMBER

 

TWO. 

Used for numbers,

ONLY numbers.

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If you enjoyed this post you can check out:

How to use "your" and "you're"

or the difference between "okes" and "oaks"

Or you can take a look at the grammar cartoons posted on The Oatmeal -
one of my fave sites, EVARRRRRR.

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I will be sharing some funny grammar related pics/jokes on the indieBerries facebook page this afternoon - so head over here if you want to see more.

{Cartoon} PET PEEVES

When I was much younger I often slept over at my granny's house - Granny's house was the BEST time and I thought my parents kept dumping me there because they wanted me to have ALL THE FUN IN THE WORLD - although it was probably (mainly) because they wanted some time out. Whatevs.

At granny's house - there was bright pink and yellow typewriter paper - like boxes and boxes of it and all tied together with string. I used to get my gran to write down as many questions as she could on the pink and yellow paper because, for some reason, my six year old-self just loved answering questionnaires and making booklets of self-interviews.

(I know).

One of her questions - I remember very clearly - asked: 

"What is your pet peeve?"

Being the young fry that I was - I had no idea what this meant, so I asked my lovely granny and she told me:

"Well, it's like a pet thing you don't like very much or something that annoys you."

to which I remember replying - 

oh bless my little cotton socks.

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Anyway - today I thought I would share one of my PET PEEVES with you:

It is appropriate today because I have recently come across a really awesome lifestyle/yoga/meditative/good-life/beautiful inspiring-words blog which I would really love to share with you. But - this particular author has not yet grasped this concept and it irks me to my core.

So much so that I cannot actually even share it.

But, like - 

When your entire mantra is based off a grammatical error:

eg:

"YOUR A FIGHTER!"

No. I just cannot.

In fact, if husband ever messaged me to say:

"your my favourite thing"
I'd text him right back with 

"your sleeping on the couch"

Please do take the next few moments to really LEARN what I'm about to teach you - 

and let's make this world a grammatically happier place

those are your french fries. 

You bought them.

You own them

They belong to you.

They are yours.

Now when you say to your friend

"your awesome!"

what you are really saying is:

But

if they have already grasped this simple concept then - 

OK - 

The sneaky one eyed apostrophe bandit has successfully hijacked the letter A.

Sneaky one-eyed bandit is holding the letter A hostage.

still holding the letter A hostage.

Sneaky- one-eyed-apostrophe-bandit has hidden in that empty alleyway - 

 holding the letter A hostage. 

The Letter-Police are flummoxed.

..... and don't you forget it.

Your welcome.

:P

Grammar: the difference between knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit.