Grammar issues

[Baron Mordo]

A lot of people on this board are using the phrase "could of" in place of "could've." Now I know that when you sound "could've" out vocally, it sounds like "could of." It's not proper grammar to write it "could of," as the phrase is a contraction of "could have."

I hope this clears things up.

[LT.Hit-Man]

A lot of people on this board are using the phrase "could of" in place of "could've." Now I know that when you sound "could've" out vocally, it sounds like "could of." It's not proper grammar to write it "could of," as the phrase is a contraction of "could have."

I hope this clears things up.

We don't realy stand on formalty here.

[Xenophobe3691]

Hey. The purpose of language is to get a point across. If the point's been passed, who are we to complain how?

[Ghost Rider]

Pfft...we follow enough grammar to be understood at times.

Seriously only time I see people criticize is when it's especially atrocious.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Since when do people use "could of" instead of "could have"?

[Stormbringer]

Since when do people use "could of" instead of "could have"?

Since education went down hill?


Though I admit I've probably done that a time or two.

[Darth Yoshi]

I've never seen anyone use "could of." I've certainly never used that. My English teachers would fail me.

[Raxmei]

School drilled me in homonyms since I knew how to read. I rarely make that kind of mistake, but it doesn't bother me to see it.

[Drach]

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and floss mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ***, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation - think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough -
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

No idea where its from though heh

[kojikun]

I hate english.

[Trytostaydead]

How about the girls that write like this..

KeKeKeeKe. Lol I dInK yEr SoOo FuNnY!!!

[LT.Hit-Man]

How about the girls that write like this..

KeKeKeeKe. Lol I dInK yEr SoOo FuNnY!!!

Need a good bitch slap up side the head

[Dalton]

A lot of people on this board are using the phrase "could of" in place of "could've." Now I know that when you sound "could've" out vocally, it sounds like "could of." It's not proper grammar to write it "could of," as the phrase is a contraction of "could have."

I hope this clears things up.

Oh shut up.