No grammatical rules were violated there. It's simply a matter of stylistic preference. Also, the stylistic preference is of no significance to the subject of this thread, so you're off topic, which is funny considering that's something that you're always chastising others for.
Originally Posted by 1pittsburgh
Seriously? Do you really want to talk about basic grammar rules the rest of us learned in grade school? Were you too busy being force-fed Critical Race Theory back then to learn how to conjugate verbs?
No, it's NOT a matter of "stylistic preference" to say "I have came" in lieu of "I have come". No, it's NOT a matter of stylistic preference to say "I have went" instead of "I have gone". Even if you flunked 6th grade English, you should know from common usage that the former two expressions don't sound right.
For your edification and to avoid looking uneducated in the future, all you need to do is lay out the verb in present tense/past tense/past participle. For example:
Present: I come
Past: I came
Past participle: I have come
Present: I go
Past: I went
Past participle: I have gone
When in doubt, you can also google the proper grammatical rule. For instance, here is something you would have found if you had taken the time to google "have went vs have gone":
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/learn...than-a-minute/
Btw - I rarely chastise people for being off topic, unless I'm covering my ass with the mods here. You evidently have me confused with other posters.
You on the other hand have made several grammatical errors in this exact comment that I've quoted. Commas and periods go inside of quotation marks and outside of parenthesis, but you put the comma and period outside of the quotation marks.
Originally Posted by 1pittsburgh
You're right, it's more customary to put a comma inside the quote mark. I've done it both ways. I am usually guided by whether the comma or period is part of the original quote, or is something I have inserted to pause or end my own sentence.
Also, your choice to use "again" by itself as a standalone sentence was pretty poor. It would have been better to combine the first two "sentences" into one. That's perhaps somewhat of a stylistic thing, but I'm not sure that "again" qualifies as a complete sentence on it's own.
Originally Posted by 1pittsburgh
Haha... I would never suggest a single word constitutes a standalone sentence. As you surely know, people sometimes break up sentences like mine to create pauses that add emphasis. For instance, "Your. Grammar. Sucks." is more emphatic than "Your grammar sucks." If you want to call out my grammar on this, I'll plead guilty but everyone knows I'm doing it deliberately for emphasis. I would feel foolish calling out anyone for doing it.
There are other errors as well, but I'll just stick to the ones I've covered so far. Grammar Nazis typically fall on their own swords, and this is one of those instances.
Originally Posted by 1pittsburgh
The world needs more "Grammar Nazis", not fewer. People who complain about being corrected are usually Grammar Butchers. The so-called Nazis are merely trying to help you, so try to be grateful instead of complaining. Glaring and repeated grammatical errors undermine your credibility as a poster and distract the reader from whatever point you are trying to make.
Btw - I have over 15,700 posts. I challenge anyone to uncover more than a handful of serious grammatical boo-boos in my entire eccie history. So feel free to have at it, 1pitts... and in case "have at it" isn't acceptable grammar to you, change it to "knock yourself out".