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rosebeeI thought the word choice of "most high-quality" was a good one.
I was amazed & astounded to learn that a better word choice is "high-qualityest"!
::kicks microsoft's grammer checker::
One of these days I really need to take a class on basic grammer.
I spent 4 years in middle/junior high school, going to 3 different schools.
6th grade at middle school #1 in state #1, 7th grade and half of 8th at middle school#2 in state #2 school district #1, and half of 8th and all of 9th at junior high #3 in state #2 school district #2.
So there's a pretty good chance I missed something somewhere. Because different states & different school districts plan things so well that each grade in each place always learns the same thing. Yeah. Not so much.
I remember learning the for the first time about the specific definitions for verb/adverb/noun/object/etc and their normal/proper placement in a sentcence in my Spanish class when the teacher explained all that to us so he could begin to explain how the Spanish structure was different.
I've never diagrammed a sentence (and have only the foggiest notion about what's involved), and the vast majority of my knowledge of grammer is what sounds right to my ears & what looks right to my eyes.
Given all that, even I know that the above recommendation should be accepted and acted upon only when I see pigs passing outside my office on the 4th floor (the one without any windows, too).
I was amazed & astounded to learn that a better word choice is "high-qualityest"!
::kicks microsoft's grammer checker::
One of these days I really need to take a class on basic grammer.
I spent 4 years in middle/junior high school, going to 3 different schools.
6th grade at middle school #1 in state #1, 7th grade and half of 8th at middle school#2 in state #2 school district #1, and half of 8th and all of 9th at junior high #3 in state #2 school district #2.
So there's a pretty good chance I missed something somewhere. Because different states & different school districts plan things so well that each grade in each place always learns the same thing. Yeah. Not so much.
I remember learning the for the first time about the specific definitions for verb/adverb/noun/object/etc and their normal/proper placement in a sentcence in my Spanish class when the teacher explained all that to us so he could begin to explain how the Spanish structure was different.
I've never diagrammed a sentence (and have only the foggiest notion about what's involved), and the vast majority of my knowledge of grammer is what sounds right to my ears & what looks right to my eyes.
Given all that, even I know that the above recommendation should be accepted and acted upon only when I see pigs passing outside my office on the 4th floor (the one without any windows, too).
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Date: 2006-02-17 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-17 12:47 am (UTC)and yeah, that 'suggestion' is the stupidest thing I've run across in a long time - and that's saying something where we're looking at Microsoft!
it's really too bad that grammar currently isn't emphasized more in our educational system - too many folks (like you) don't have a handle on the basic rules.
you might check Strunk & White for some of the best outlines of how-to - the style manual is online, or you can probably find it at the library.
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Date: 2006-02-17 01:51 am (UTC)I was editing a document for my boss, and that was the langugae he chose, and I didn't hate/dislike it enough to want to bother changing it.
But I like "highest quality" better.
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Date: 2006-02-17 01:54 am (UTC)I was editing a document for my boss, and that was the langugae he chose, and I didn't dislike it enough to want to bother spending the time to think up a different phrase.
I need to look up a basic grammer class at my local community college.
Luckily, I'm an intelligent & well-read woman, so I have at decent sub-conscious understanding of what sounds right and what doesn't.
But I would like to understand all those grammatical terms I hear!