Queue, Cue and Que

[Pearlsasinger]

Well I was always taught to say "Whoever and I are doing whatever" You don't say "Me and whoever are doing whatever" Or "Whoever and me and doing whatever"

You were taught quite correctly.
You should indeed say "Whoever and I are doing whatever" because you should say "I am doing whatever". In those sentences,"I" is the subject of the sentence. In other words "I" is the one that the verb refers to.
In the caption to your son's picture "This" is the subject. In any instance where you would use "I" if only one person were doing whatever, then you use "I", even if at the end of a list of hundreds of names. However, if you would normally use me, as in "This is me", then me is correct, even if at the end of a long list of names.

 

[Lydz13]

This one is really more relative to where I live, but telling me to speak "proply" is not teaching me how to speak properly... Grrr

 

[Dubsie]

What I find irritating is the 'much sort after type' when they mean SOUGHT

Even estate agents use 'sort' when they mean 'sought'.

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

And to all those who think it doesn't matter a rat's bottom how you spell, consider this. If you were entering a dressage competition, would you give a rat's bottom about how you or the horse were turned out? Ditto showing, jumping, hunting, driving. It's a courtesy to do things properly and by the rules: that way there's never any misunderstanding. If someone turned up for a dressage test in ripped jeans, trainers, old sweatshirt, horse just dragged in from the field and covered in mud.....what would the judge think? What would other competitors think? Forum members who don't bother with at least TRYING to get it right are the equivalent of the jean-and-trainers. It's a discourtesy to the very people who are reading your post in order to try to help.

I'd recommend "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" to anyone interested in avoiding spelling and grammar howlers, whilst at the same time having a damn good laugh.

 

[0ldmare]

I recently saw an advert for a horse for sale and it said 'works well in the skool' I mean, aside from wondering what they taught in the skool that the person presumably attended, I couldn't help wondering just how you could be so unobservant as to not figure that one out!

 

[Fuzznugget]

Que = what (spanish)

Anyway, you all think that's bad, try this gem from the school my friend's son goes to:

 

[Pat10]

'I should OF done something' instead of 'I should HAVE done it'. It's amazing how many seemingly well-educated people are guilty of this.

Oh and the Aitch one - it quite puts me off my dressage test if I hear someone calling and pronouncing it thus!

 

[Tnavas]

My pet hate is the Americanisation of Vehicle - Ve Hic cal grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr yet they say erbs for herbs. Weird.

Que is Spanish for 'What'

Also hate the misuse of '....' & "...."

" is for speach quotes "I like horses" said Jane not for emphasising words.

My excuse for being crabby - the cat woke me up and I can't get back to sleep. Just after midnight here or is it hear or their, there or they're.

 

[Double_choc_lab]

I make many mistakes myself but one which irritates is "kerb" and curb". I've seen "the car hit the curb" and I have visions of the car either hitting a curb on a horses leg or somehow hitting it under the chin on it's curb chain.

 

[Stacey6897]

This thread is great, glad to see other (less timid) grammar police out there!

 

[little_critter]

One that always makes me giggle is when I see on menus:
"Scampi, chips and pea's"
I always wonder pea's what?
Or even better was when the menu said scamip...... (It was very tasty scamip)
But my main bugbear is the bought / brought thing grrrr!

 

[Groom42]

Oh, ALL of the above, plus....
Accept and except
"I will accept most things except bad grammar"

 

[touchstone]

Que = what (spanish)

Anyway, you all think that's bad, try this gem from the school my friend's son goes to:

That is shocking!

 

[Rowreach]

Ah, that reminds me of the time my son's class went on a farm trip and the resulting picture montage with the heading "Daisy the cow needs milked" - - colloquial Norn Iron in case you are wondering

Oh and "speach" marks ^^^ - ahem

 

[Polo*Pony]

My son is six and came home with a picture, it said "This is me and ......." That really annoyed me, I am forever correcting him, this is ....... and I!! Makes you wonder what on earth they teach them.

Actually... if your son's teacher has taught him that the picture if "of X and me", then s/he is correct. It would be a picture of X and me. Think about it without the X - you would never say, 'this is a picture of I', would you? You'd say 'this is me'. It's the same when you add someone else into the equation. It works the other way too - 'Mark and I went to the cinema' is correct, whereas 'Mark and me went to the cinema' is not (because you would never say 'me went to the cinema').

Sorry to be pedantic. I hope I don't come over as rude but your line about 'Makes you wonder what on earth they teach them' made me feel I had to comment. I am a teacher and it is so frustrating when pupils say, "but my Mum says..." when what their parents have said is mistaken - the poor children get really confused.

Sorry - just realised Pearlsasinger has beaten me to this one.

Also though, not sure who brought up 'could of' and 'could have' but I completely agree - that is my grammatical 'nails on a chalkboard'!

 

[SonnysMum]

Hi All!

I'm not particularly skilled with grammar, however, its the use of your and you're that really winds me up, and i have no idea why its just that one that drives me mad though!

 

[andraste]

My pet hate is the Americanisation of Vehicle - Ve Hic cal grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr yet they say erbs for herbs. Weird.

Que is Spanish for 'What'

Also hate the misuse of '....' & "...."

" is for speach quotes "I like horses" said Jane not for emphasising words.

My excuse for being crabby - the cat woke me up and I can't get back to sleep. Just after midnight here or is it hear or their, there or they're.

Actually, since we're all being pedants, this is not the case. There are no rules for using single or double quotation marks to indicate speech except that you must use the same one to both open and close the quotation. Double quotation marks are generally preferred in the USA but, as a rule, there is no preference in the UK.

If you were 'nesting' one quote within another then there are conventions for which to use but not for straightforward quotation.

 

[Stacey6897]

My personal bugbear, using "should of" instead of "should have", makes me scream, but quietly, on the inside

 

[trakehnersrock!]

One of my particular bugbears is when people say: "That is so fun!". Um, no it is not. It is either such fun, or so funny.
Imho, correct spelling is essential, particularly if you want to learn a foreign language, because if you want to translate 'here' and look up 'hear', you will get the wrong word, so will most likely end up with total gibberish!

 

[Sayra]

My neice came home from nursery one day with her book which said on the inside "Abigail had fun today playing with sequences".

There are other gems in her book but can't remember them off the top of my head!




P.S is anyone else tripple cheking there speling when they rite on this thred?!

 

[Hedgewitch13]

'Off of' bugs me. Surely it's just 'off'? Happy to be corrected!

 

[blitznbobs]

My son is six and came home with a picture, it said "This is me and ......." That really annoyed me, I am forever correcting him, this is ....... and I!! Makes you wonder what on earth they teach them. Most people I know can't spell! I am forever correcting people, I just can't help myself!!

Actually your son is right... you wouldn't say "that's a picture of I" You would say "that's a picture of me" so the correct grammar is 'that's a picture of XXX and me."...

BnBx

PS the one that bugs me is brought and bought. 2 seperate words and I don't get why people keep adding the r when you don't even say it...

 

[rubyrumba]

Actually your son is right... you wouldn't say "that's a picture of I" You would say "that's a picture of me" so the correct grammar is 'that's a picture of XXX and me."...

BnBx

PS the one that bugs me is brought and bought. 2 seperate words and I don't get why people keep adding the r when you don't even say it...

Ok everyone, the pic didn't say this is me and i or whatever I initially said, it was definitely wrong, I just wrote it wrong in my post!!

Blitznbobs it is sepArate!

 

[Tnavas]

'Off of' bugs me. Surely it's just 'off'? Happy to be corrected!

Off of is wrong - eg get off the carpet with your dirty boots.

 

[pintoarabian]

One that has been driving me to distraction for a long time because it seems to be creeping in everywhere is 'norty'. It is NAUGHTY! N-A-U-G-H-T-Y!

and......

Just because a word ends in an 's' doesn't mean it has to have an apostrophe!

 

[Ali2]

The vast majority of the above and when brought is used instead of bought. Gaaaah!

 

[Tnavas]

Pole - instead of Poll

rapped instead of rapt

Ankles - horses don't have ankles!

 

[Paddy Irish]

Whether the weather is good or bad i'm off to ride the boy.