![]() The longer your word is, the more points you'll get. You'll find a crossword-like board full of jumbled letters, and it's your job to swipe a line of letters to make a word. Create your character, choose an avatar, and jump into a real-time match against a competitor. 26, 2008.ģ.Word vs Word is an 2-player puzzle game where you battle another player in a word-forming match. This podcast was written by Bonnie Trenga, author of opens in a new windowThe Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier, who blogs at opens in a new, and I’m Mignon Fogarty, the author of the paperback book opens in a new windowGrammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.ġ. As for the double “is,” although you’ll probably let an occasional double “is” slip out every once in a while, it’s probably better to avoid this construction when possible. These constructions might be slightly awkward, so if you don’t like them, go ahead and reword your sentence. It’s also possible to double up “had” if you’re using the past perfect tense. Remember that words sometimes get doubled in the normal course of creating a sentence. In the first case, the verb “is” turns out to be next to another “is” in the second, the verb “wants” is next to the “is.” If you want to be a more careful speaker, you should probably reword such sentences: “He is a complete jerk” is more concise but less emphatic. If we use the same grammatical structure but not the double “is,” I think we can see that the double “is” sentence is grammatical: “What she wants is a bigger chocolate bar.” Here, “What he is” and “What she wants” are both the subjects, so we need to follow the subject with a verb. We use such sentences when we want to emphasize our point. Sometimes you might hear a sentence such as “What he is is a complete jerk.” I believe this is grammatically correct, though a bit wordy. One source I consulted agrees with me (3), but one does not (2). There is, however, a case when two “is” verbs in a row is grammatical. Thinking longer before you speak is a better idea. For example, in the sentence “The problem is is that it’s raining,” the subject of the sentence is “the problem” therefore, we need only one “is.” We probably say such ungrammatical sentences because we’re stalling as we think of what to say next. In such cases, another “is” would be incorrect. You’ll often hear it when a sentence begins with “The problem is” and “The question is” (1). The double “is” has been part of American speech since at least the 1980s, but “it isn’t an expression for careful speakers,” says grammar authority Bryan Garner (2). ![]() Here’s another past perfect example: “I had eaten too many chocolates, so I was too full to eat dinner yesterday.” This is grammatically the same as the “had had” sentence but we used the verb “to eat” instead of “to have.” Although “had had” isn’t wrong, “had eaten” definitely sounds better.Īnother odd doubling up occurs with the verb “to be.” This phenomenon is sometimes called the “double is,” although you can double up other forms of “to be.” You’ve probably heard of the song “Que será será,” which is Spanish for “Whatever will be will be.” In this song, “will be,” a future form, is repeated. If you are using the verb “to have” in past perfect, you need to use two “had”s. When you have two past-tense occurrences, you use past perfect to express the action that came first. First was eating chocolates second was trying to eat dinner. To do so, we’ll use past perfect tense, which uses “had” plus the past participle, as in “had had” and “had gone.” So in the sentence “I had had too many chocolates, so I was too full to eat dinner yesterday,” two things happened in the past. Now let’s put the chocolate sentence in the past tense. Present perfect tense uses “has” and “have” plus the past participle, as in “have had” and “has gone.” This sentence means that I started eating chocolates in the past but the chocolate eating is continuing up to the present. You use that tense when you’re talking about a past action that is continuing into the present. Take this sentence: “I have had too many chocolates today.” That sentence is in the present perfect tense. ![]() To understand “had had,” we need to take a look at the present perfect and past perfect tenses. ![]() It is correct, though it too might seem a bit awkward. Another double you might encounter is “had had,” and Frank from New York would like to know if it’s a correct phrase.
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