Should be an Adverb Here
Using an adjective for an adverb is a fairly common error. Last word:
You know the word should be “easily,” right?
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What’s a Dad Joke?
The last post was about homonyms and such. That made me think of Dad jokes, which are deliberately misconfigured homonyms, making them into a pun. For example: Last panel: “leaf” instead of “leave.” The middle panel has a worse one: “herbivore” instead of “Herb before.” Groan. Got any better Dad jokes?
A Homonym Joke
Two homonyms, actually. A homonym, by the way, can be a pair (or more) of words that have different meanings and are spelled differently but pronounced the same. A homonym can also be a pair of words spelled the same, have different meanings, but are pronounced differently (such as row, to be one after another […]
Bad Art, Bad Grammar
I wouldn’t have made this into a post, but the art is terrible. What is that on the right??? And you know the word should be “you’re,” not “your.” Two icks! harrumpf.
What Do You Call This?
First panel first line, last word. It means “trying to” but you know that. Should we call it an an apostropheless contraction? I think there’s a linguistic name for this kind of word combination… Maybe “word merger.” If you know, tell me!
