It's LOSE not LOOSE............
By coolsasi2k6
@coolsasi2k6 (279)
India
December 5, 2006 6:17pm CST
.......when you lose your sense of direction, lose your property, lose your health, lose your sense of humour. It's a verb.
It's loose when it's not tight (eg a loose knot) That's an adjective. It can also be an adverb (eg having a loose grip on grammar and spelling, or in some of the Forums, on reality, although that is, of course, a matter of opinion ).
Loose is used wrongly so many times on HP that I have made this post.
It maybe a lost cause, but never mind. And I know I make mistakes and I hope you don't mind me pointing this out. I like learning from my mistakes so I won't mind if anyone points mine out. (OMG what have I said.)
It's LOSE! Ok? LOSE! except when it's loose, and that's fine.
2 responses
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
6 Dec 06
I see a lot of errors in spelling, etc. I look at it this way, funny. Blame it on the schools. When I was attendance secretary at a local high, I had student aides that worked in the office. I would assign a simple task of alphabetizing a stack of passes. They used some pretty creative ways of doing this. Often they would ask me to read a paper they had written. The spelling was horrible. The teachers graded on the content of the work. They didn't take off points for spelling errors. How is that supposed to help a student learn?
