Just about everybody with a valid driver's license has more formal education than myself.
Ouch. Myself?ÿis a?ÿreflexive?ÿpronoun, meaning the speaker or writer would use it self-referentially. In other words,?ÿmyself?ÿis used when the speaker both performs and receives the verb's action.?ÿ Correct would be:
Just about everybody with a valid driver's license has more formal education than?ÿme.
If you want be 100%, it's as the Queen would say:
Just about everybody with a valid driver's license has more formal education than I.
The Queen would say "we".
(And by the way, the Queen is the only person in England who can drive without a license.)
If you add the word "do", it sounds correct with "I".?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ...........has more formal education than I do.
Irregardless ???? , they have a college degree. Now if we can get surveyors and attorneys to understand the difference between each side of the line and either side of the line, we would be getting somewhere.?ÿ
Only about half of the grammatical or spelling errors I throw in my posts about the English language are intentional.?ÿ It's a part of the self-deprecating humor I try to share with readers.?ÿ The other half are there because, well, I'm an uneducated Okie.
The CBS program 60 Minutes use to end with a segment by Andy Rooney.?ÿ Rooney was one of my favorite journalists that chronicled the human race in the 20th. century, mainly Americans.?ÿ He received correspondence once he shared with viewers on a segment.?ÿ One of his surviving English teachers had written him a scolding letter because he had on camera ended a sentence with a preposition, commonly know as a dangling preposition.
Andy went on for 5 minutes about his teacher and his admiration for her strict adherence to our linguistic rules.?ÿ He had nothing but praise for her and openly admitted he owed her an apology.?ÿ The last line of his segment went something like, "So Ms. Smith, I sincerely apologize.?ÿ You taught me better and I failed your instructions.?ÿ But I ended my sentence with a preposition because I couldn't think of anything else to end it with".?ÿ ?ÿ
I think I was the only one in the room that laughed.?ÿ 😉
@richard-imrie?ÿ Maybe, but certainly not "myself."?ÿ Where is the verb in the previous sentence <g>??ÿ Or is there a grammatical error?
"We are not amused." ?? The Queen
Based on observing far too many attorneys in action it appears that it's not really all that tough to survive those six or years of college so long as someone else is paying all of their expenses during that time.?ÿ Most of the ones I have observed who truly know what they are doing over a broad range of topics are ones who paid their own way.
Winston Churchill was once criticized for ending a sentence with a preposition. His response was, "This is the type of arrant pedantry?ÿup with which I will not put."
His wit probably was what led Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri to honor him with an Honorary Doctorate in 1946.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ct-trav-0111-fulton-missouri-churchill-20141230-story.html
He probably received his wit from his American born mother, Jennie Jerome, from New York.
I don't think it's really about the news anymore, but every once in awhile there's a gem in that crap.
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I don't think it's really about the news anymore, but every once in awhile there's a gem in that crap.
Here's what I consider a classic for the ages when it comes to news clips.?ÿ Even though it's about ten years old now, it's still a gem.
Ya can tell that dude ain??t never rode a motor scooter for any length of time. ?????ÿ
