Spelling & Grammar for dummies (updated).

I wonder what they teach in schools today. In the Rules and Guidelines of a well-known webbased forum I read:3. If you're English is not perfect, no problem but than always try to make short understandable sentencesThat's such bad advice it's not even funny! It's "your English", the comma is in a strange place, I'm missing a dot, and your English should at least show some attempt at making it understandable, i.e. it is a problem if it's not perfect. Let me put down some simple basic rules:You're - A contraction for "you are" (You're hot!). Your - Ownership (Isn't that your car?). They're - A contraction for "they are" (They're leaving now). Their - Ownership (That's their car). There - A place (It's not here, so it must be over there.). Our - Ownership (That's our car). Are - Are you really that dumb? Two - The number 2. Too - "Also" (I want some too) or "in excess" (That's too loud). To - All the other uses. Breathe - Verb, action, pronounced BrEEthe (I can't breathe). Breath - Noun, a thing, pronounced Brehth (Take my breath away). Than is a conjunction used in comparisons, like: Julius is smarter…

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