220 The ENGLISH LANGUAGE is fascinating.. two statements that sound exactly the same can mean something SO DIFFERENT !!!??? (media.greatawakening.win) posted 3 years ago by Oldpatriot 3 years ago by Oldpatriot +220 / -0 16 comments download share 16 comments share download save hide report block hide replies
As an English teacher I'm stickler for grammar too, which is why this post annoys me too. It's not a punctuation difference it's a linguistical one.
You may be an English teacher, but clearly not a linguist!
I am a linguist, and I can tell you: you are correct, correct, and incorrect.
It's not a punctuation difference... correct.
It's a linguistic (or linguistical, if you're a brit) difference.... correct.
But ALL differences to do with language are LINGUISTIC, whether its orthography (punctuation), syntactic, morphological, lexical, or what have you.
So even if it WAS a punctuation difference, it would still be a linguistic difference, so..... (incorrect).
In this case, it is a morphological/lexical/grammatical difference.
Morphological difference:
Your (possessive pronoun - one morpheme) vs. you're (contraction of 'you are' - two morphemes, second one being a conjugation of the verb (to be)).
Lexical difference:
Your = possessive pronoun (2nd person singular) - indicates the object is possessed by the person represented by the pronoun
vs. you're = pronoun (2nd person singular) + verb (to be) - indicates that the person represented by the pronoun is (something).
Grammar difference:
The former is a word, and the latter is a phrase.
For my money, the better slogan would have been :
"Grammar matters" because this is essentially a grammatical difference not a punctuation (orthographic) one.
This was just beautiful!
Linguistanon....