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This is for all you unfortunate souls who do not posses a finesse for the English language....  Nah, I'm just kidding! However, if you ever find yourself thirsting for further instruction on the English language, you've come to the right place! I will admit that I'm no genius at it, but neither is Stephenie Meyer (just look her up).  So, with the cooperation of people with a higher status than I, I hope to rid the world of grammar's evils!

To start off, please read the following sentence:

people say mouri is the death god but its really conan

Now, here's the rules:
If you correct it, then you write a new one.
Feel free to correct anything within a person's post.

Have fun!

P.s.  If you want real grammar lessons, just request them and I'll post some.

I guess it's "its"->"it's" 

What's grammatically wrong with the following:

Takagi reports: "The data from the crime lab is inconclusive."
 

I'm a stickler for grammar (as best as I can), so I don't like it when I don't write properly. Since this is started and someone would want me to correct them, I will for the fun of it (while making an improper sentence).

people say mouri is the death god but its really conan.

People say Mouri is the death god, but it's really Conan.

Takagi reports: "The data from the crime lab is inconclusive."

Takagi reports, "The data from the crime lab is inconclusive."

What's grammatically wrong with the following?
If Conan did not meet Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta in there class, their might not be detective boys to helps other kids solve cases.

blurfbreg wrote: If Conan did not meet Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta in there class, their might not be detective boys to helps other kids solve cases.

I don't feel like answering because I'm too tired to make up my own sentence... but I literally cringed reading this.  I'm counting 5 grammar mistakes (possibly 7, depending on how you split things which I combined into a single mistake).

blurfbreg wrote:

Takagi reports: "The data from the crime lab is inconclusive."

Takagi reports, "The data from the crime lab is inconclusive."

Actually, there is a graver mistake than the colon in the above sentence, one which is purely grammatical.
 

ayw wrote:
Takagi reports: "The data from the crime lab is inconclusive."
 

Takagi reports: "The data from the crime lab are inconclusive."

blurfbreg wrote:
What's grammatically wrong with the following?
If Conan did not meet Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta in there class, their might not be detective boys to helps other kids solve cases.

If Conan did not meet Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta in their class, there might be no detective boys to help other kids solve cases.

"It takes a second to take somebody's life and a hour later to regret it."
Just check its grammar though...never mind the idea... 

S.H. wrote:

ayw wrote:
Takagi reports: "The data from the crime lab is inconclusive."
 

Takagi reports: "The data from the crime lab are inconclusive."

blurfbreg wrote:
What's grammatically wrong with the following?
If Conan did not meet Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta in there class, their might not be detective boys to helps other kids solve cases.

If Conan did not meet Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta in their class, there might be no detective boys to help other kids solve cases.

"It takes a second to take somebody's life and a hour later to regret it."
Just check its grammar though...never mind the idea... 

It is an hour and what is it with the "later" ?!

S.H. wrote: [...]

"It takes a second to take somebody's life and a hour later to regret it."
Just check its grammar though...never mind the idea... 

"It takes a second to take somebody's life and an hour later you (will) regret it."
or
"It takes a second to take somebody's life and an hour to regret it."

I got a question concerning grammar. The police usually is plural,
"The police is are not very clever." or "The police arrives at our apartment."
But what about federal agencies like FBI, NSA, CIA, ATF. Are they plural too?

googleearth wrote: I got a question concerning grammar. The police usually is plural,
"The police is are not very clever." or "The police arrives at our apartment."
But what about federal agencies like FBI, NSA, CIA, ATF. Are they plural too?

Not 100% sure, but this is what I would do - Normally I would use singular (FBI means Ferderal Bureau of Investigation-so just one bureau;  NSA is short for National Security Agency-just one agency again), but when talking about a group of officers I would use plural (The FBI (as in Jodie, Akai and James Black) are charging the house.).

S.H. wrote: "It takes a second to take somebody's life and a hour later to regret it."

My suggestion: It takes a second to take somebody's life an another hour to start regretting it.

And a question: What is the simple past form of dream? Dreamt or dreamed?

dreamed...

ayw wrote:
I guess it's "its"->"it's" 

What's grammatically wrong with the following:

Takagi reports: "The data from the crime lab is inconclusive."
 

I know this one has already been answered but The problem is what is called subject verb agreement. The grammar rules states that :

'Singular subjects need singular verbs; plural subjects need plural verbs' from http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/sv_agr.htm

The subject 'data' is an plural one , but the verb 'is' is singular. Also ( to me anyway ) Taskagi is reporting results so this example is also wrong about the subject verb agreement dealing with time. Results are in the past so a past verb is needed. I believe this example is correct like this

Data from the crime lab was inconclusive reported Takagi.

Later

Sayumi wrote: And a question: What is the simple past form of dream? Dreamt or dreamed?

I think they are interchangeable.  The English language is very peculiar, you know.

chubs191 wrote:

Sayumi wrote: And a question: What is the simple past form of dream? Dreamt or dreamed?

I think they are interchangeable.  The English language is very peculiar, you know.

according to http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/irregular-verbs/dream.html Both are correct.

Later

... *runs*

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