Show newer

grammar is complicated, but an answer if you want one 

@nomo i’m glad it was helpful! i think its something that throws a lot of people because the version of english grammar we’re taught in schools is highly simplified, but then you do pick up an intuitive sense for the more complex real grammar through listening/speaking. it can be really confusing to have to try to resolve conflicts between what ‘feels’ right and the rules you learned!

grammar is complicated, but an answer if you want one 

@nomo english has a lot more than three verb tenses! sometimes we reuse the conjugation from another similar tense (often with an extra word doing the modification bit—any time you see will/would/could/have before a verb they’re actually part of the verbs grammar) but other times they get their own so you end up with wildcards like went, which is used for the past preterite of go, while gone is user for the perfect tense

eg.
i will go to the store (simple future)
she goes to the store every week (habitual, which used the present tense)
i am going to the store (present continuous)
i was going to the store yesterday when i saw a raven (past progressive)
i have gone to the store twice (present perfect)
i went to the store yesterday (past preterite)

@clayote the tax file waifu game everyone keeps screenshotting

@pixelcats truly unforgivable (well…unless you have the good treats)

@being using size without specifying what they mean is also super sloppy—like, land area? population? i assume the latter given the context of NYC but like. c’mon

school shooting. person being horrible. Im upset 

@Cyborgneticz or hell, with all the supreme court cases lately striking down gun control, maybe their parents did vote for safer gun laws and it just didn’t fucking matter

Not that it’d be ok either way obv but just like. ugh

school shooting. person being horrible. Im upset 

@Cyborgneticz besides the obvious way thats a horrible response to an actual shooting

This is a school so the majority of people are presumably too young to vote??? Is the argument here really ‘parents should be punished with their kids lives’??????

@naye cats are predictable creatures sometimes 😆

@naye if your house is anything like mine, this heist will end with the thief startling themselves when the banana falls off the table

@asya i haven’t recovered from Suga’s ‘Jiminie when is your second album coming out’ speech i’m not prepared for this

@asya @Glittery hahaha i was just about to say “well he’s been ARMY longer than anyone so he’s had lots of time to practice”

clearly we all must bow down to his fanboy prowess

@Forestofglory yeah i’m always v tempted by the fancy pre-qingming teas this time of year!

Show older
📟🐱 GlitchCat

A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.