Ancestors

Written by Bruce Toews on 2025-01-14 at 14:34

One thing I do appreciate about this book: Even in the second grade, they are showing children that sometimes you need to say "and I", and sometimes you need to say "and me", and you can't just say "myself" when you don't know which to use.

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Written by The Kitchen Bitches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️ on 2025-01-14 at 14:42

@Bruce One of the best tips I got on this was by my 2nd grade teacher. Mrs. Stitt a right old bitch but with some good ideas never the less. Anyway, she said if you are unsure which to use try making it about you only as in "I baked cookies for Mom and me." Vs. "I baked some cookies for me/myself." That kind of thing.

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Written by Bruce Toews on 2025-01-14 at 14:52

@Pawpower Yes, that's the easy rule that will pretty much always give you the right answer. Except that myself should always be the entire object: Mom and myself is never accurate. Myself is a reflexive pronoun so you only use it when you are the complete object of the subject. As in, "I hurt myself" or "We hurt ourselves", but not "The big dog hurt her and myself." Sorry, that's probably way more of a response than you were hoping for, but I love grammar.

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Written by The Kitchen Bitches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️ on 2025-01-14 at 15:19

@Bruce Yes, I realize that I just put it in there to make it more clear but apparently I just made it more confusing lol

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Toot

Written by Bruce Toews on 2025-01-14 at 15:20

@Pawpower Nah, we just had a good back-and-forth about grammar, is all.

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Descendants

Written by Ken Scott on 2025-01-14 at 15:37

@Bruce @Pawpower Maybe you brainiacs can help me with something.

This word is an adjective, a noun and a verb

It refers to something that is elaborate in structure or decoration

Begins with ‘F’

What's the word?

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Written by The Kitchen Bitches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️ on 2025-01-14 at 15:44

@Ken @Bruce My guess is fancy. Something can be fancy and adjective, a fancy is often a treat or a favor given at a party, or you can fancy something up… A verb, to make something look more elaborate than it originally was.

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Written by Ken Scott on 2025-01-14 at 15:48

@Pawpower @Bruce Apparently incorrect. Or maybe I just don't know what I'm doing.

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Written by The Kitchen Bitches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️ on 2025-01-14 at 15:51

@Ken @Bruce Maybe fussy?

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Written by Ken Scott on 2025-01-14 at 15:53

@Pawpower @Bruce LOL does that refer to something that is elaborate in structure or decoration?

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Written by The Kitchen Bitches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️ on 2025-01-14 at 16:02

@Ken @Bruce Yes, fussy tends to be things that are very elaborate and kind of obnoxiously so. Men typically get grounded with the adjective fussy more than women do because it is considered feminine for women to be fussy, for example about their appearance, but not so much for men to do the same.

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Written by Ken Scott on 2025-01-14 at 16:05

@Pawpower @Bruce Okay, incorrect. I'm trying to cheat at Wordle is what I'm doing.

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