Grammar Help Oh God Please

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  1. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    Yup, it's OMW!! Her codes are Not At All Consistent, Except When They Are.
     
    keltka, Feb 13, 2017 at 5:34 PM
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  2. Erica

    Erica occasionally vaguely like a person

    .....incredible
     
    Erica, Feb 13, 2017 at 5:34 PM
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  3. Erica

    Erica occasionally vaguely like a person

    Still have no idea what's going on with #1, but I agree with MC for #2
    Can't even find what IC is for @__@
    Like in general the concepts seem decently enough explained but I really wish there was a list of some kind with all the codes and what they're referring to
     
    Erica, Feb 13, 2017 at 5:52 PM
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  4. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    Agreed :/ I'm thinking of trying to make one up but idk if she'd Approve of that, but bluh, does it even MATTER at this point
     
    keltka, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:33 PM
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  5. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    Sentence #2 might be DM for dangling modifier (if you search 'having' in the doc, it brings you to the example pretty quickly). If it's a modifier thing, it could be MM on the outside, but that's for when something is attached to the wrong noun, and this just doesn't fit in the sentence.
     
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    spockandawe, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:37 PM
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  6. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    hokay so what I've got so far is that
    1
    2 - MC or DM or MM
    3
    4 - PS-1
    5
    6 - PC-5
    7 - OMW

    you guys are all saviors honestly I keep getting 7.14 out of 25 as a score on this
     
    keltka, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:53 PM
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  7. spockandawe

    spockandawe soft and woolen and writhing with curiosity

    Sorry, just pulling everything together because I'm making myself dizzy trying to keep track of all the pieces

    Sentence 1: awk (awkward)? If there's a code about not defining an acronym the first time it's used, the sentence violates that (I don't see any rule for this). If you're supposed to be complaining about the gerund, it would be ger (but the gerund looks okay to me, the sentence is just clumsy). Yeah, awk is the best I can figure for this one, sorry :P
    Sentence 2: MC (mixed construction) or MM (misplaced modifier)
    Sentence 3: IC (incomplete construction, but this abbreviation would be Inc in her original list)
    Sentence 4: P-S1 (used a semicolon instead of a colon)
    Sentence 5: frag (fragment, no verb)
    Sentence 6: P-C5 (need commas on coordinate adjectives)
    Sentence 7: OMW (were vs was)

    (I think IC might be meant to stand for Incomplete Construction to go with MC, but that's not in line with the acronyms she lists)
     
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    spockandawe, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:56 PM
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  8. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    Oops, I think I meant Inc and put IC and holy hecking hell thank you so much Spock, that makes sense
    She did "hint" that there was one that wasn't wrong, but I don't honestly know if I trust anything from her anymore
    THANK YOU SO MUCH.
     
    keltka, Feb 13, 2017 at 7:01 PM
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  9. garden

    garden lucid dreamer

    i'm just looking at this like, holy hell, this is aunt josephine-levels of obsession over grammar. i don't think i'll be much help here, but, yikes. witnessed.
     
    garden, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:08 AM
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  10. Aondeug

    Aondeug Cringe Annoying Ass Female Lobster

    omf

    Even aon is horrified. Wow.
     
    Aondeug, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:16 AM
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  11. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    @garden honestly I'm just kind of. crying. like. it seems like it'd be really helpful when she's correcting shit? but setting it up as a test the way she did is...certifiably fucking insane lmao

    @Aondeug this prof is Really Funny but dear god this grammar shit
     
    keltka, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:17 PM
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  12. keltka

    keltka the green and brown one

    @ Everyone who helped thank you so so so much!!
    I'm...starting to think she set us up to fail on Purpose, because, erm
    I retook the thing, with the answers y'all helped me with (thank you so much @spockandawe for all of that, holy SHIT)
    and I got a 14.29?
    like. what. okay. I don't even understand her. this is insane


    seriously though thank you so so so much I don't think I could've gotten past a 7 without your help aAAAAA.
     
    keltka, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:23 PM
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