The dinosaur is talking about himself the whole time, even though he switches from first person (me) in his first sentence, to second person (you) in the second sentence. He uses “you” in a generic sense, which I mentioned a while back.
What the dinosaur is saying would be smoother if he had stuck with either first person or second person the whole time. Try reading it to yourself each way. Which do you like better?
People commonly put “only” at the beginning of a clause when the word actually modifies a word within the clause. The rule is that adjectives (such as “only”) modify the word following. Putting that “only” too early can lead to nonsense.
This guy gets it right. Third panel. Think what he’d be saying if he had placed the “only” one word earlier, in front of “helps.” In this case still true, perhaps, but not his point.
By the way, in the next panel, that’s a rectangular prism, not a cube. But I digress.
PS—Here’s a typical incorrect “only.” Second word balloon. It should be “only last week.” (Ignore the “only” in the first word balloon. It shouldn’t even be there.)
I’ve been seeing “alright” used so often lately, that I figured I had too many to choose from if I pointed out this mistake. Besides, I wrote about it at least once before. It’s two words, folks, “all right.” I’ve been discouraged about seeing this solecism so often, so having found someone who got it right, I have to celebrate:
If you want one word, maybe spell it “arright.”
Did you know that you don’t use the degree sign when you write the wind chill?
Here’s the whole paragraph:
With the new [as of 2001] formula, Environment Canada began reporting wind chill as an index stripped of units, so that a calculated wind chill of, say, -30°C is communicated simply as -30. “The current index is expressed in temperature-like units because it is the format that was preferred by most Canadians,” says the agency. “However, since the wind chill index is not actually a real temperature but, rather, represents the feeling of cold on your skin, it is reported without the degree sign.”
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/How-Wind-Chill-Got-Started-and-What-Its-Doing-US-Midwest
So there you have it.
To make the degree sign, by the way, hold down the Alt key while you type 0176 on the numeric keypad. So 40° below, for example. On a Mac, it’s Option-Shift 8.
I wrote about this back in 2012, but I repeat myself occasionally, so here’s the lesson again, particularly since I have a comic for it:
Maybe that’s what happens when you and your résumé don’t match…
(ahem) Anyway, how do you get that accented “e”?
On a Windows computer, hold down the Alt key while you type 0233 on the numeric keypad, then release the Alt key.
On a Mac, Hold down the Option key while you type an e, then release both keys, and then type “e” again.
May you and your résumé always match, and may the résumé be outstanding.
Lightweight post today. I kind of wish that first panel were true, though…
I think it would be funnier if the last panel had “yr” instead of “your.”
I don’t run into this error very often, except in places that want to correct your grammar. And sometimes in a high school student’s homework.
It’s in the middle panel in the second line. (Little bit of cynicism in the title panel…)
I don’t need to tell you how to do it right, do I?
You need a context to be able to tell whether “each” refers to two things. For example, you could say that each hand has a glove on it, or each team member was in uniform.
Let’s assume the context implies two things. You still have an important difference between these two words:
“Both” refers to two things together.
“Each” refers to two things separately.
Here’s a good example of getting it wrong:
There is one [polar vortex] at both poles, and other planets have them too.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/01/23/4-weather-concepts-that-confuse-people-did-polar-vortex-make-the-list
Sorry, each pole gets its own vortex.
Just for grins, here’s a Hubble photo of Saturn’s polar vortex.
Haven’t shown many comics lately, so here’s one. At least it’s about grammar.
The oldest mistake in the book: their, there, they’re.
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Conclusion
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