34306
Current Talk '24 I / Re: Boardindex Page Montage/aka 'Book 1'?
« on: July 31, 2018, 04:18:14 PM »
I'm surprised that neither I nor anyone else noticed there was a big boo boo in one of yesterday's quotes:
Book One/Issue Three/Page 10 - Carolyn: 'OH, SURE--
VICKI'LL BE THRILLED TO SEND THE LITTLE "DARLING" OUT
OF HER SIGHT FOR AWHILE.'
It wasn't until I was just formatting a few of Midnite's quotes for next month's slideshow that I noticed the quote contains the phrase "out of her sight for awhile" and therein lies the big boo boo: It's a hard and fast rule in English that the adverb "awhile" never follows a preposition, as in "for awhile." It should read "for a while," consisting of the article "a" and the noun "while." One of my English teachers in particular must be rolling over in her grave that the comic made that mistake because she was a real stickler for never making it. Though why doesn't it surprise me that the comic did?
And that concludes today's English Grammar lesson...
Book One/Issue Three/Page 10 - Carolyn: 'OH, SURE--
VICKI'LL BE THRILLED TO SEND THE LITTLE "DARLING" OUT
OF HER SIGHT FOR AWHILE.'
It wasn't until I was just formatting a few of Midnite's quotes for next month's slideshow that I noticed the quote contains the phrase "out of her sight for awhile" and therein lies the big boo boo: It's a hard and fast rule in English that the adverb "awhile" never follows a preposition, as in "for awhile." It should read "for a while," consisting of the article "a" and the noun "while." One of my English teachers in particular must be rolling over in her grave that the comic made that mistake because she was a real stickler for never making it. Though why doesn't it surprise me that the comic did?
And that concludes today's English Grammar lesson...