User:Jerome Charles Potts

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Rule of the game : i keep from consulting dictionaries when i am working here, for the temptation to copy in here what i find there would be great ; so i locate my stuff elsewhere, such as in grammar books, literary works, Wikipedia, etc. If i do check against a dictionary, and end-up following its information, i will add a reference as a footnote as to where i saw such stuff.

Cheat sheet

• Template talk:wikipedia

Links

• http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/06/is-the-band-phish-singular-or-plural.html
• http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2007/07/collective-noun-agreement.html
• OneLook Dictionary Search
• Merriam-Webster's "try and" vs. "try to" video:

Arguments:

• "Come and see" what we're looking at ; "Go and check on" smthg or smbody
• "To repair his strength he tries" ; "try always to be polite" ; "try not to do that"