Hello There! Plus Grammar Lessons From Sugar-Sweet-Horcrux!
Apologies for missing a few blog entries! I was in the process of writing one about stress, but I was whisked off to spend six days with family, so… Anyway, I came back tonight, and I’m scrapping the stress article. I am sorry that this will be insanely short, but it is what I wanted to write about, so it’s what I wrote about. Here you go.
Ready? Begin. There was a problem with Bitter-Whovian’s blog about Indie Bands. So, because I am insanely uptight about these things, I feel that I have to correct it. “Indie is short for independent, but it has come to mean stuffy, underground musicians, and they’re stuffy, underground audiences.” Can anyone see the problem? Allow me to enlighten you. There are many, many different types of ‘there’s’, and I will be explaining two. The first is the one that my dear, dear fellow used, ‘they’re’. They’re, like many words in the English language, is a shortened version of two words. It combines the words ‘they’ and ‘are’. This obviously does not make sense in the context. So what word should be used here? The answer is ‘their’. ‘Their’ is the possessive form of ‘there’, making the sentence what Bitter-Whovian meant it to be, the indie musician’s fans.
One last thing before I continue. I do not mean to ‘bully’ Bitter-Whovian. I also know my grammar corrections bother her. It was just bothering me, and this is a great outlet for me to say things that bother me. So please, do not kill me. I just felt like mentioning that the use of ‘they’re’ in that context was incorrect.
Now then, this is goodbye for this entry. I know it’s insanely short, but as I said earlier, it’s what I wanted to talk about, so it’s what I talked about. Talk to you soon!
Okay, just looked at this again and was seriously annoyed about how short it was... So I don't know what to say but just know that I REALLY wish it were longer. Ack. Okay, bye.