{"id":1131,"date":"2013-12-18T17:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2013-12-18T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:27:30","slug":"correcting-a-few-grammar-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/18\/correcting-a-few-grammar-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"CORRECTING a few GRAMMAR MISTAKES &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;ME&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8221; &#8212; Always use &#8220;me&#8221; following a proposition, as in:\u00a0 &#8220;for me&#8221;.\u00a0 Extra words trip us up, such as &#8220;for my company and I&#8221; and should be &#8220;for my company and me&#8221;.\u00a0 &#8220;NAUSEOUS&#8221; or &#8221; NAUSEATED&#8221;.\u00a0 First is something sickening to contemplate and 2nd is how you feel.\u00a0 COMMAS FOR CLARITY.\u00a0 An example:\u00a0 &#8220;let&#8217;s eat my friend&#8221; is not the same invitation as &#8220;Let&#8217;s eat, my friend&#8221;.\u00a0 &#8220;AFFECT&#8221; or &#8220;EFFECT&#8221;\u00a0 Think using these words as verbs and you&#8217;ll use them correctly as nouns.\u00a0 To &#8220;affect&#8221; means to influence it and &#8220;effect&#8221; is to cause it.\u00a0 If the result of something, it&#8217;s an &#8220;effect&#8221;.\u00a0 Many many more!\u00a0 From Margie Fisher, PrimeLending in Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;ME&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8221; &#8212; Always use &#8220;me&#8221; following a proposition, as in:\u00a0 &#8220;for me&#8221;.\u00a0 Extra words trip us up, such as &#8220;for my company and I&#8221; and should be &#8220;for my company and me&#8221;.\u00a0 &#8220;NAUSEOUS&#8221; or &#8221; NAUSEATED&#8221;.\u00a0 First is something sickening to contemplate and 2nd is how you feel.\u00a0 COMMAS FOR CLARITY.\u00a0 An example:\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}