Born & Bred - Answered

In my not so distant entry, I blogged about the phrase "She sweeps the floor everyday". Today, my dear friend, Diane had given her words of wisdom, it goes like this:

Hey Hawk! I've got the perfect explanation. I took this straight from the internet. It's what lazy teachers do. Taken from www.eslgold.com/grammar/everyday.html {sorry Diane, too lazy to omit this phrase}

Explanation

Everyday is an adjective meaning "daily."

Every day is a time expression meaning "each day" or "regularly."

Examples

Note the difference in the following sentences:

1. Jane goes to class every day (each day)

2. Jane has an everyday class. (a daily class)

Common Errors

The most common error is writing "every day" as one word (everyday) as in the following sentences:

1. I used to jog three miles everyday (Incorrect)

2. I used to jog three miles every day. (Correct)

Of course, this is how I would sum it up:

Min Anne has an everyday pair of shoes. 

(Note where it's placed in the sentence! Everyday is the adjective to describe what follows next--the noun phrase "pair of shoes") i.e. Adjectives describe Nouns.

Every day, every single day, Min Anne hugs her Daddy.

Min Anne hugs her Daddy every day, every single day.

(See? Every_day shows 'habit', 'routine'--when you mean the action 'hugs' to be 'regularly' or 'daily'.)

This is how to test whether you're using 'everyday/ every day' correctly:

1) She sweeps the floor everyday.

Now replace the word 'day' with an actual day, e.g 'Monday'.

She sweeps the floor everyMonday.

Note how wrong that looks. So...

2) She sweeps the floor every day.

Now replace the word 'day' with an actual day, e.g. 'Monday'.

She sweeps the floor every Monday.

Your grammatical instinct will tingle at the correctness of that! So, ta-da! Hope that helps! Print this out for your friend--and err...hope things work out with that teacher and the parent. :) Apparently, the teacher got it right. How surprising! Yes, I'm being ironic.

Diane

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Oh gosh.. I'm 'following' her on twitter and now I've got this huge crush on her! drool drool drool..

Born & Bred

"She sweeps the floor everyday" - a colleague at work asked me whether the correct word is "everyday" or "every day". After a giving it much thought, I said "every day". She opined, it should be "everyday". I can't argue, I don't really know how to explain in terms of all those noun, verb etc etc but my gut feeling tells me its "every day". It all started like this:

My colleagues' friend's daughter who is in primary 2 was given this question and she answered "everyday". The teacher said it was incorrect and "every day" is the correct answer. Apparently due to this single 'point', the poor girl got 2nd place in class! The 'outraged' mother confronted the teacher for explanation and the teacher gave this answer:

"I have discussed this in a meeting with the other teachers and agreed that the answer is every day". 

What kind of STUPID explanation is that?! It just sends out a signal that the teacher do not know the answer or the proper explanation and it made clear sense why the mother was upset!!

I googled "every day" and found this:

everyday, every day (and other every- compounds): everyday is an adjective; it only precedes nouns. Every day is an adverbial phrase which means "daily."

Not really satisfied with the 'google' and my colleague started to act kiasu-ish with the "it must be everyday, cannot be every day one.." plus my own curiosity, I called a friend whom coincidentally is teaching English at MMU - she gave a lengthy explanation. And based on that, her answer was - "every day".

I requested for her to e-mail me her explanation and I will post it here and I will extend a copy to my colleague as well just so that the case is put to rest - though now the teacher could be all kiasu! Gosh.. this could snowball into something catastrophic!!!

A Done Deal

If none of you noticed, I've willingly allocated a 'twittering' device on to my blog to update those outside the 'cult' to give those curious of what 'we' are doing inside..

Oh and Aza, did you know that only on a Mac that we can choose either to print the whole screen or select which screen to print - just like what I did with this entry and some other previous ones..

Know it first..

I only knew that Taylor Swift won the awards from her twitter. Oh and yes, I am a self-confessed twitter virgin and a twitter-addict at that! Am officially - a TWIT! Wifey was right all along..

A new cult

I've condemned myself to a new cult..

NBA Champion!

pics from espn[dot]com/nba

After a disastrous outing in last years Finals, the LA Lakers got it right this time around. Oh yeah! Of course it is not all about Kobe, old guard Derek Fisher and the rest of the team also played their part!! Oh yeah oh yeah!

Adeus. agradecimentos para as memórias!

from manutd[dot]com

It appears that Manchester United is selling C Ronaldo after all. Why wouldn't they? For a hefty sum of 80 million quid.. I would! At least now the prospect of hanging on to Tevez and getting a new player is good!

We've survived when Hughes, Kanchelskis left, we've survived  with kids on the side, we've survived when Nistelrooy left, we've survived when Cantona retired. Of course we can survive when Ronaldo's not around.. though I am hoping that Berbatov would be the player he's touted to be!

CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE 2009

No. It wasn't United that triumphed on the night. In fact they crumbled after 9 minutes of potentially winning performance, until of course Barca scored the opening goal and that seems to be the killer blow as they never really looked threatening after that. Credit to Barcelona - They show true grit and determination and I applause them for a much deserved win.

Champions! (pics from soccernet[dot]com)

The way you guys played, you deserved nothing more - Tough luck, there'll be next season and come back better and stronger. Bring in Barca again for the Finals!

Could I have a cup of tea, please?

The pictures speaks for itself. No explanation needed..

pics taken from my Cousin's mobile uploads on FB (Thanks cuz!!)

High quality home

I LIKE,

I WANT,

I GOT!

*pictures courtesy of ebags[dot]com

YES PLEASE!