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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Collecting wild mushrooms??? #102354 05/05/03 10:19 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean In reply to: you could perhaps also use "wild mushrooms" for collecting wild mushrooms" (My hobby is wild mushrooms=my hobby is collecting wild mushrooms) The hobby in question would be hunting, not collecting. The thrill is in the chase. I found enough morels this weekend for a nice meal for two. The twelve hours I spent in the woods were my real reward. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: diagram #102355 05/05/03 04:10 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA W wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA everyone who knows what i mean raise their hand, ... puzzled looks on everyone elses faces asking "What is diagraming? Waving both hands madly -- Me! Me! Me ! Wwnt to a convent school ! I wouldn't want to try a complex sentence today, but I was a whizz in the sixth grade! And I amazed the English professor in college by diagramming and then correctly answering questions on parts of speech, clauses, subs, etc ... Talk about things you'll never use !!! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Collecting wild mushrooms??? #102356 05/05/03 08:08 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Wasn't there a rather faux pop group called Hunters and Collectors? You stealing registered trademarks again, Connie? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Grammar: is or are? #102357 05/06/03 01:31 AM Joined: May 2003 Posts: 12 H heni79 OP stranger OP heni79 stranger H Joined: May 2003 Posts: 12 At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'd like to thank everyone again for taking time to read my post and to offer me some much appreciated help. I can't believe how great you guys have been! You have been so nice to me for answering my question so thoroughly. I certainly didn't expect it! Also, thanks for the warm welcome! I'll be sure to stop by often. Take care, everyone! --Heni Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: diagram #102358 05/06/03 03:21 AM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park sorry \/\/O\/\/! i should have realize you would know too! and remeber BOY FANS? That is how you know you have a dependant clause.. But, Or, Yet, For, And, Nor, S(and.. and.. its not complete, because is missing.. but boy fans gave you a heads up..(and the list works for sentence fragments too.) and to find a copulative verb, or a predicate adjective.. an earwig, to the tune of yankee doodle dandy, sing Be Seen Feel Become Appear, Look Taste Grow Sound Remain Smell Copulative verbs take nomnative, precicate nouns as adjectives! (and that is the lesson for the day!) my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: diagram #102359 05/06/03 06:19 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US S slithy toves enthusiast slithy toves enthusiast S Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US Here's how I learned 'em way back when: Helping (or auxiliary) verbs: be am is are was were been have has had do does did may can must might could would should shall will Then the linking verbs--we didn't use the word copulative--sounded vaguely dirty: be am is are was were been become grow seem appear taste smell sound look and feel I always liked that order, ending as it does with the five senses. I hasd a seventh-grade English teacher who considered sentence diagrams an art form. It was so drilled into us that I'm sure I could, given enough chalkboard space, do a compound-complex sentence with beaucoup prepositional and participial phrases, even now. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: diagram #102360 05/06/03 06:29 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok I has a seventh-grade English teacher who considered sentence diagrams an art form. It was so drilled into us that I'm sure I could, given enough chalkboard space, do a compound-complex sentence with beaucoup prepositional and participial phrases, even now. I'm sure you can get treatment for your complaint, slithy. In the meantime, take two aspirins and see your prescriptivist grammarian in the morning! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: diagram #102361 05/06/03 06:49 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 He said he could diagram sentences; he didn't say he could proofread his own work. Don't ya just hate it when a simple typo turns out to be grammatically incorrect? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: diagram #102362 05/06/03 11:11 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US S slithy toves enthusiast slithy toves enthusiast S Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US Awright awready! See edit above. When will I learn? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter *hehheh* #102363 05/08/03 01:15 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean When will I learn? Was that a rhetorical question, Slithy? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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