lol english

[Redorigami]

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She keeps saying "If I gift you, isn't gift a verb? I'm sorry that you don't understand how gift can be a verb."

[Coolboyrulez0]

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Read the whole thread.

What a bitch. She needs to accept the fact that she is incorrect.
She has been proven incorrect from a multitude of sources yet she's thickheaded enough to not accept her mistake.

And hey,
it's a noun.

[All_That_Chaz]

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Gift
Gift\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gifting.] To endow with some power or faculty.

He was gifted . . . with philosophical sagacity. --I. Taylor.

Yes, it can be a verb. However, basic sentence structure dictates that the sentence needs an object, and "valuable" seems to be modifying something, most likely the object of the sentence, "gift."

[sp1nzoK]

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First I thought her ego got a dent which she won't confess but turns out she just doesn't have a clue.

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

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Can't wait for the admin responses.
Agreed that it's a noun.
Props to rubix, dev, squeek, owa, red, chaz, dingle and many others!

ACKNOWLEDGED!! Right before "and many others" xD
Thank you, I'm addicted to appreciation D:

****ing relativists.

IS "RELATIVIST" AN ADJECTIVE BECAUSE IT WAS REFERRING TO "RELATIVE?" No.

Very easily put:
Anything that ends with "ist" or "ism" is a noun.
Anything that ends in "ly" is an adverb.

I think the second one may have acceptions, not sure though.

She keeps saying "If I gift you, isn't gift a verb? I'm sorry that you don't understand how gift can be a verb."

Her tone just pisses me off, it couldn't be any less obvious that she's trying to piss you off without sounding angry. "Oh, you poor child, I'm so sorry you're stupid". Of course gift "CAN" be a ****ing verb, that's not the ****ing point. If I were you I would tell her how inappropriate that message was, and respond with, "If I have a wonderful gift, isn't gift a noun? I'm sorry that you don't understand how gift can be a noun."

PS: Someone please tell me when I'm supposed to put the period in or outside of the quotes, I did the opposite of what I thought was right, because I'm unlucky like that xD

[Adamaja456]

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Had a meeting today.

As it stands, she said if Mrs. Mann got back to me and agreed it was a noun, she would admit she was wrong and personally apologize.

PS. Mrs. Mann just agreed with me.

/win

WIN

She said she'd give everyone a +1.

HOWEVER! THIS JUST IN
I'm still wrong apparently. So much for a personal apology. She's now saying that I didn't properly inform Mrs. Mann of the details of the question.

nah, she is way to ignorant to admit she is wrong in her flawed logic. like everyone else said. words dont maintain the same part of speech everytime they are used. you did properly infor mrs mann. she doesnt want to admit her masters degree is utter bull**** and she didnt learn piss easy shlt that they should of learned back in grade school.

tl;dr
ignorant teacher=i wanna kill her

[devonin]

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PS: Someone please tell me when I'm supposed to put the period in or outside of the quotes, I did the opposite of what I thought was right, because I'm unlucky like that xD

If the punctuation in the quoted text ends the statement appropriately, you keep it inside.


Devonin said "it goes inside the quotation marks."

Wait was that "it goes inside the quotation marks"?

[norsegod666]

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If the punctuation in the quoted text ends the statement appropriately, you keep it inside.


Devonin said "it goes inside the quotation marks."

Wait was that "it goes inside the quotation marks"?

It seems that we learn English better on FFR than in school.

[Vanilla Mnm]

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I think too big of a deal was made out of this, nothing against anyone on this either, but I've had teachers make mistakes and still try to convince me they are correct, although it is quite obvious they are wrong. I just simply let it go & move on.

P.S. emerald000, I see you're viewing this thread. Happy Birthday!

[MrRubix]

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Wow, her explanation for that just made me even more angry.

Yes, "gift" can be a verb.

That's not the ****ing point, Ms. Flanary-****ing-retard-I-don't-deserve-a-Master's-please-tie-my-tubes-so-I-don't-pass-on-my-idiocy.

Even though "gift" was being used as a verb in some previous sentence, the sentence in question uses it AS A NOUN.

God damn it... I hate stupid people so much.

[MrRubix]

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Ask her what adjectives modify. Please, for the love of God, I would love to see what kind of bull**** response she'd give to that.

I need to calm down. This isn't even my teacher. I get so irate at retarded, thickheaded people.

It's not even so much that's she's wrong... we're all prone to being incorrect. What pisses me off is the fact that, despite all the argumentation, valid sources, explanations, and logic for WHY "gift" is a noun in that context, she's too stubborn to acknowledge any of it other than saying "No, you're wrong. I can't believe you can't accept that it is possible to 'gift' someone!" It just shows her inability to listen, her lack of intelligence, and more importantly, her inability to teach.

[DossarLX ODI]

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Epic battle

[Squeek]

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Let's do this the nice way, because you're giving her a lot of grief over this when she clearly doesn't care anymore.

First of all, you have to understand teachers are glorified babysitters who get underpaid for the amount of troubles they have to undergo in order to become teachers. Most of them are probably people like me--people who enjoy teaching other people the things they know. They probably didn't know babysitting teenagers all day would be so bad.

Second of all, along with this, understand that teachers don't like being wrong. They're the ones teaching you after all.

I had a super-long post written up explaining the intricacies of the English language, but I realize now that there is a very easy solution to all of this.

Her response:
"That's because it was a VERB. The sentence went with the one before it, which was referring to Danielle's ability to recollect information from memory. It's something she does, which means it is not a noun but in fact a verb.

Thanks,
Flanary"

http://www.answers.com/topic/gift

gift n: A talent, endowment, aptitude, or inclination.

Danielle's gift is a talent. She's able to recall information from memory. She is gifted with this talent, and the talent is a gift. Her gift is a noun. When she uses her gift, is she gifting? No. Even if the previous sentence had her gifting others with her gift, in this sentence, that gifted gift is still a noun. I also highly doubt the previous sentence is written this way because it would be incredibly confusing and written in an attempt to screw people up. Even though I've never seen the question, I assume the previous sentence reads something like "She can recall things from memory really easily." So to say "That must be an extremely valuable gift!" in reference to this gift utilizes the "talent, endowment, aptitude, or inclination" definition of the word. In fact, you can substitute in "talent", a word that has no verb form, and the sentence still reads properly -- "That must be an extremely valuable talent!"

It seems like this whole confusion is over one of the definitions of a word she's not familiar with. The funny part about it is that this is one of the basic forms of the word, whereas the verb form of the word is the archaic form.

[Tokzic]

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If a noun is turned into a verb when it is talking about an action, then action should never be a noun, because it's always referring to a verb of some form.

Yet...

Main Entry:ac·tion Pronunciation: \ˈak-shən\ Function:noun

QED.

[Oni-Paranoia]

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Stubborn teacher much?