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Grammar pedants - help please.

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mad4purple Oct 2007 11:16pm, 29 Oct 2007 18,548 posts	Quote Pin mad4purple I'm sorry f this has been covered, but..... practice or practise As in to practise something? Am I right or wrong. And is it medical practice? Am sorry as I think I have been saying this all wrong. And before anyone picks up my poor grammar in the post, I was never taught grammar, I do know that you shouldn't start a sentence with and but I do.
abdou Oct 2007 11:30pm, 29 Oct 2007 528 posts	Quote Pin abdou You're right m4p: you practise medicine in a medical practice. practise = verb practice = noun And you can start a sentence with "and" as far as I'm concerned as well. And but. But don't end with a smiley in formal grammatical communications
mad4purple Oct 2007 11:32pm, 29 Oct 2007 18,552 posts	Quote Pin mad4purple Why thank you abdou :):P;)
abdou Oct 2007 11:32pm, 29 Oct 2007 529 posts	Quote Pin abdou
DeeGee Oct 2007 12:06am, 30 Oct 2007 307 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee Huge: an educated guess seems like either a tautology or an oxymoron, but implies that you are using your acquired knowledge, ie education, to guide your instincts towards a more suitable answer than just throwing a dart blindfolded at a board. Therefore, if I were to ask you to guess an outcome in an area which you know compared to someone who has no knowlege of that subject, your educated guess would be more likely to be near accurate than that of the less educated individual. Estimate 16x16. Then ask a nine year old to do the same... Abdou: And and But are conjunctions and therefore should not start sentences (except as stylistic devices, of course).
DeeGee Oct 2007 12:07am, 30 Oct 2007 308 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee Furthermore, neither should be preceded by punctuation, except in reported speech.
Huge Oct 2007 4:20pm, 30 Oct 2007 1,792 posts	Quote Pin Huge Fair comment DeeGee
Stumpy Oct 2007 4:26pm, 30 Oct 2007 4,857 posts	Quote Pin Stumpy ahem. 'compared WITH' not 'compared TO' it is the pedants' thread, after all. but yes, DeeGee, I agree too.
abdou Oct 2007 7:45pm, 30 Oct 2007 530 posts	Quote Pin abdou Oi DeeG, you calling my sentences unstylish? Outside, now! Spelling bee to the death!
Hendo Nov 2007 10:08pm, 5 Nov 2007 11,612 posts	Quote Pin Hendo Good grief... http://www.fetcheveryone.com/showgalleryphoto.php?filename=1158_7861.jpg