Things you need to know.
Rules:
~Be literate, or at least Semi-Literate.
~Don't rape your keyboard. If the letter or symbols is used once, USE IT ONCE!
~Try your best not be be an idiot.
~Wipe your feet on the mat.
~Do not mock religion or cultural differences.
~No major flaming.
~Keep swearing to a minimum.
~When someone enters, say Hello.
~When someone leaves, say Good-bye.
~Do not break the rules.
Tek's Grammar Lesson.
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Capitalization - Every sentence begins with a capital letter. Proper nouns (names of countries, people's names etc.) also begin with a capital letter.
End punctuation - At the end of every sentence comes a period, exclamation point, or question mark. Use a period for any regular sentence. Exclamation points express strong feelings or excitement. Question marks indicate a question.
Commas - Commas are most usually used to separate an appositive phrase from the rest of the sentence.
Apostrophes - Apostrophes are most commonly used to show possession. For example, if Tek owned a cow, it would be Tek's cow. Apostrophes are also used in contractions such as don't, isn't, wasn't and others.
Colons - Colons are used when you are making a list of items in a sentence. Colons are also used to reveal more detail.
Semicolons - Semicolons can be used to join two sentences together instead of using a period and capital letter or comma and conjunction. It is a stronger stop than a comma but weaker than a period.
Commonly Confused Homophones Wrote:
Accept - as in acceptance; to accept a gift.
Except - as in exception; to make an exception.
Affect - to influence something
Effect - the result of the influence
Their - shows possession of something owned by more than one person.
There - used as a place, as in "over there."
They're - contraction of the words they and are.
Two - used in place of the number 2.
Too - used to mean also; as well.
To - used as a function word to indicate: an action ("to run" wink , an extent or degree of something, the direction of something or to indicate purpose.
Your - shows it relates to you and indicates possession by you.
You're - contraction for "you are".
Weather - used to describe the sky outside.
Whether - as in "whether or not she's going."
Commonly Misspelled Words:
Love, not lurve, luv, luff, or lub.
Sentence, not sentance.
Tomorrow, not tomarrow, tomorow, or tommorow.
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