[grammar] i.e. & e.g. - Page 4

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gchan

United States654 Posts

October 20 2009 04:27 GMT

#61

On October 20 2009 05:57 Kau wrote:

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Try your best. Do your worst.

His point was the usage of a preposition when denoting the extreme example. "Your" is still a preposition. You would never say "try your better;" rather, you'd say "try better."

As for the OP, I've long since given up trying to correct every grammatical mistake people make in online environments, let alone in day to day life. Most people just don't really care to speak/write English well, and that's not going to change any bit by me patronizing their small mistakes. But then again, that's why I also tend to end up only talking to people who can write/speak well--it's a lot less of a headache.

Manit0u

Poland17243 Posts

October 21 2009 17:53 GMT

#62

On October 20 2009 13:27 gchan wrote:

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His point was the usage of a preposition when denoting the extreme example. "Your" is still a preposition. You would never say "try your better;" rather, you'd say "try better."

Actually, I was talking about using the scaling (good, better, the best) when being used as an adjective

QuoC

United States724 Posts

October 22 2009 05:16 GMT

#63

very wise choice of a thread subject, good job man. i got them confused a lot too

Djabanete

United States2786 Posts

October 22 2009 05:29 GMT

#64

The simple solution is not to use either, not only because it's easy to misuse them, but also because they tend to make you look like you're just trying to sound smart (whether or not that's really the case). I'm all for using the right word for the right situation, but "i.e." and "e.g." don't mean anything that can't be rendered in plain English ("that is" and "for example", usually).

my 0.02

Edit: I didn't mean to imply that this thread was unnecessary though --- quite the opposite... "Would of" just kills me every time. ><