The guy who responds, “I hate it’s songs,” is expressing that he wishes the program consisted of something other than singing.
No. The sentence, without contraction, then reads: “I hate it is songs.” Does this make sense? Unless the meaning intended is “I hate that it is songs.” Without “that”, the sentence doesn’t make sense. He’d say “I hate that it’s songs.”
You’re / your
Loose / lose
Their / there / they’re… The struggle goes on.
And yet, in my own writing, whether at home writing fiction or at work composing a letter or other document, perfection eludes me. It’s really difficult to see my own errors onscreen, and I can even miss them after the document’s been printed. I only wish that I was a grammar master. (Yes, you can bet co-workers love to point out my mistakes!)
I believe that was Liberal’s meaning, and the sentence is strictly correct, but poor in style. [I think; I’ll look into that.]
It’s “were”. [“It is”]
May I add one?
Less and fewer. Fewer apples make less applesauce; less apples make me cringe.
And, DrDeth, the ‘common usage’ argument is fine for MySpace, but doesn’t [“does not”] fly in the professional world. A misuse apostrophe always comes across as carelessness.
[Agressive proof-reading welcome; I’m in the middle of an important project and can use the reminders.]
“I hate it’s songs,” is not a clear meaning for “wishes the program consisted of something other than singing”, but no one would say it that way. They would say “I hate that it’s all just singing”. You’d have to add at least a “that” as Savannah said.
j666: “… but doesn’t [“does not”] fly in the professional world.” = “but it doesn’t fly…”. Anyway, remember that Grammar mavens disagree. When they do, which version is “professional”? :rolleyes:
Does anyone else pronounce “you’re” and “your” differently? Not all the time, but when the accent in a sentence is on “your,” I’ll say the vowel sound just like the word oar. It’s YOUR tuba? (as opposed to her tuba) Whereas even when I’m accenting “you’re,” I tend to say y-ur (or maybe y-er). YOU’RE a hero? The rest of the time, I say both “your” and “you’re” like y-ur.
Anyone else have any different pronunciations for these?
Not quite as awkward as your example, however. Leaving “that” out of your example (I hate it’s Monday) makes for an awkward written sentence, since one can’t hear the inflection. There is nearly zero ambiguity in ‘perhaps it’s regional’.
the “It’s X” clause is the complement (object?) of a verb. (I hope someone who knows the Lingustics jargon can fill in the right words for me here.) In my sentence,
the “It’s X” clause constitutes the main noun-verb structure of the entire sentence, said sentence beginning with a sentential adverb “probably.”
A better example you might be able to use is the following:
This I think is structurally the same as your “I hate it’s Monday,” at least under the description I gave of that structure.
I would say “I think it’s Monday.” I would not say “I hate it’s Monday.” I know of no considerations that explain or justify the distinction I make between these usages, but I don’t claim there is any such. I’m simply reporting my habit, and noting that I’ve never heard (or anyway noticed) any speakers around me or on TV whose usages apparently disagreed with mine. Hence my suggestion that it’s regional.
It’s the predicate of the sentence. It is the thing you hate.
It could be that examples just don’t come to mind. Quite often, “that” is dropped, especially in modern usage. Here’s one example of the exact wording from a blog: “Counting the days…God I hate it’s Monday”
I sat here for five minutes trying to figure out why you think I hate predicates. :smack:
Yeah, I googled “I hate it’s Monday” too.
I still think it’s regional or something, but we don’t have the means to really find out. All I know is it makes me cringe, and I can’t recall ever having heard or read it til your post in this thread.
-FrL-
(I’ve also found about five instances of “I hate it’s so X” i.e. for five different Xs.)
