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Re: May i please get help on emproving my english skills?

Goodman — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:15:10 GMT

Hi Anon,

As you wish... I noticed a few things obvious. Itâs more of a laziness problem than grammar. You have a habit of not applying the capitalization rule and making simple but careless spelling mistakes. Tone and structure are workable nut certainly can use some improvement. I marked it up so that you can seeâ¦.. Hope that helps

Hello everyone! I'm here in search for some help on (improving) emproving my (English) english skills including my spelling and grammar. I'm not here to search for ~~some~~ answers but mostly am ~~here~~ to (broaden) broden my vocabulary as well as my grammar. I notice that my main problem is sentence structure as well as spelling (on some words). I believe that if (I) i learn to speak more on a forum (which is) thats willing to offer constructive criticism (criticise (on) my (capital E) english which would ultimately lead to improving my self (knowledge) knowlege. So with this (cap. I) i hope for people to point me in the right direction, (not necessarily) giving me the (answers) answeres but point and criticize (what is wrong) whats wrong so (that) as (capt I) i can learn from my mistakes. (Anyway- no s) Anyways ( missing apostrophe) dont hesitate to give me feedback.

"Euro's worth" or "Euro worth"?

Guest — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:05:02 GMT

Hi Folks,

I live in Ireland and the unit of currency here is the Euro(â¬). When the EU created the Euro, it was decided that the plural of Euro would simply be Euro. This was to avoid confusion because different languages in Europe have different ways of changing a word to make it plural.

My query is about apostrophes - yes, that old chestnut. I have noticed that the phrase "Euro worth" occurs regularly in various formats, ranging from TV and radio ad's (I think that apostrophe is correct - "ad" is an abbreviation of advertisement?) to national broadcast news programmes.

This phrase, no matter what the context, strikes me as being wrong. Typical examples are:
"A million Euro worth of goods was seized."
"The man won a hundred Euro worth of vouchers."

So, here is my question: Surely when we are talking about what something is worth using the sentence structure above, " 's " should always be used?
I think (yes, I'm asking for confirmation!) this case falls into the category of possession, that is, "John's hat" is the same situation of possession as "a pound's worth".

Please help, this is bugging me a little!

Thanks.

Re: Commas

Mister Micawber — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 12:46:39 GMT

Well Rosa, you have managed to misspell both 'misspelled' and 'misspelt'! I think that the regular form is assuming wider usage than the irregular form.

Yes, a comma after 'word' makes the meaning more clear-- and that is the main job of commas, clarification. There is an elided 'then' after that comma, which would make the sentence structure even more straightforward.

And you could lose an 'a' from 'apostrophe' too....