PUYP Part 1 UH-OH I'm Gonna Cause Offence With This One! Speling Annd Grammarz What The F...

So your post is written and primed to go live... You hit that button ugh!

Let's wind back. I'm gonna hit you with some basic tips to PUYP!

Pimp Up Ya Post.

Some curators are super picky...Not me. I look for passion, fun, emotion or knowledge from the posts I read. In a word I'm constantly looking for value and quality. I am happy to overlook all sorts of misdemeanors of the written variety to get to the juice of a post.

I understand that everyone here does not speak English as their first language and some who do, just paid no attention in school...Are we here to judge? I think not! I myself have pretty appalling grammar and punctuation. it is something I do not remember from school and something that has not gone in to my head correctly since. I will be damned if I am gonna let that stop me from havin' a blast here and writing for fun and pleasure. If the occasional reward comes my way, that is awesome but I am no Charles Dickens and I am probably never gonna be.

I just wanna share a hand full of tips that anyone can utilise to write better looking, more appealing posts.

The basics...Make that the basic basics ;)

Today is gonna be simple...We are only gonna cover the trickiest of the tricky and the single biggest mistake that people make globally.

There, Their and They're. These words are called homophones. This just means that they sound the same but they are very different.

• There
  There, just like Where refers to a place, this is easy to remember because it contains the word here. Where is the place? It is there.
  Where is the car? Oh there it is.
  There is the opposite of here. I am here, you are there.
  There is my house.
  Got it? Coolio. ;)

• Their.
  Their tells us that something belongs to someone...It is theirs. It is their possession.
  Their house is over there.
  Who does the cat belong to? It is their cat, the people from number 64.
  They're getting another cat for their Son.

This leads us nicely on to

• They're
  They're is a shortened and more informal way of saying they are.
  So. They are buying a new car, becomes, They're buying a new car.
  Ready for this, ok, let's shoot...
  "They're buying a new car for their Son who lives over there in that house with the red door"

I realise I haven't gone too deep with this but as I said at the start I don't want to over-complicate this important subject for those for whom this information can make a real difference. I have actually gone back through and self edited in order to re-simplify the core-message several times to keep it simple :D

I sincerely hope that nobody felt patronised whilst reading this. Not at all my intention.
Feel free to offer me grammatical tips in the comments, i will take them on-board gratefully. It is my intention to actively seek out posts that can help me with grammar and punctuation as I want to become a better writer too.

I will be making more of theses PUYP posts to help those starting out with English or who just wanna tighten up their work.

May your days be fun and your load be light my friends. have an amazing journey :)

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