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Quick Grammer Question (my bf isn't around)

Blue_Lava

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I'm making up some flyers to promote recycling toner cartridges at work. A subtitle on the flyer reads:

How Too Recycle A Toner Cartridge
Doesn't look right. We don't have 'How Too' books. But, the spelling and grammer editor says this is the way it should be and NOT

How To Recycle A Toner Cartridge.

Thoughts?
 
Your spelling and grammar editor said that? S/He needs to be fired!!! What a dunce. I have no problem with people who don't know basic grammar rules, but someone who has that position should know something my 8 year old does!! =D
 
NEVER BELIEVE THE GREEN SQUIGGLY UNDERLINES FOR TO/TOO/TWO AFFECT/EFFECT THEY'RE/THEIR/THERE and a WHOLE HOST of other things it doesn't get right.

In the very last file I uploaded, someone used the word "effect" as the verb meaning "to bring about." Word thought it should be "affect" meaning "to have an impact on."

If you're not generaly good at picking those sorts of confusing homophones out, don't rely on Word to help a nigga out.
 
>>In the very last file I uploaded, someone used the word "effect" as the verb meaning "to bring about." Word thought it should be "affect" meaning "to have an impact on."
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stupid U of O psychology department, brainwashing me into thinking that "effect" is never a verb! Just FYI, in the social sciences, apparently "affect" is your causal verb of choice.

ebola
 
grammar lesson on two, to, too

Two is a number.

She counted, "One, two, three."



Too is an adverb that can mean also.

He wanted to go too.



Too is an adverb that can mean more than enough.

This is too much for me!



To plus a noun or noun phrase is a preposition.

Take me to the ball game.

I went to bed early that night.



To plus a verb is an infinitive.

She wanted to go.

He decided to run away.



That makes the correct way, 'How to' and not 'How too'.

For future reference: too means more than enough and is an adverb which is always before an adjective or adverb.

(I had to look all this up)
 
ebola! said:
stupid U of O psychology department, brainwashing me into thinking that "effect" is never a verb! Just FYI, in the social sciences, apparently "affect" is your causal verb of choice.
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I don't know how this is going to affect your affect, but perhaps this new information can effect an effect in your view.

:D
 
>>I don't know how this is going to affect your affect>>

perturbed.

>>but perhaps this new information can effect an effect in your view.>>

indeed.

ebola
 
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