http://lisaangelettieblog.com/seperate-or-separate-a-grammar-lesson/ Article Marketing Made Easy Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:04:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://lisaangelettieblog.com/seperate-or-separate-a-grammar-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-707 Lisa Angelettie Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:05:23 +0000 http://lisaangelettieblog.com/?p=398#comment-707 You're preaching to the choir TheMarshal! I hear ya'! A lot of English word spellings and grammar rules don't make a lot of sense based on how we use or pronounce the words. All I can imagine is that at one point in history, the pronunciation was always SEP'-A'-RATE' and it evolved over time or at one point in history we did not use separate as an adjective. All I know is that sometimes when I am writing quickly, I may write things the way I pronounce them and this is a word I continue to spell wrong after God knows how many years of advanced English!!! Thanks for your comments:-) You’re preaching to the choir TheMarshal! I hear ya’! A lot of English word spellings and grammar rules don’t make a lot of sense based on how we use or pronounce the words. All I can imagine is that at one point in history, the pronunciation was always SEP’-A’-RATE’ and it evolved over time or at one point in history we did not use separate as an adjective. All I know is that sometimes when I am writing quickly, I may write things the way I pronounce them and this is a word I continue to spell wrong after God knows how many years of advanced English!!! Thanks for your comments:-)

]]> http://lisaangelettieblog.com/seperate-or-separate-a-grammar-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-706 TheMarshal Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:48:17 +0000 http://lisaangelettieblog.com/?p=398#comment-706 Then why do we pronounce the verb and the adjective differently if they are not spelled differently? We say the verb as "we had to SEP'-A'-RATE' the two boys that were fighting", but we do not say in using the adjective "we had to put them in SEP'-A'-RATE' rooms", we say "SEP'-ER-AT rooms" Then why do we pronounce the verb and the adjective differently if they are not spelled differently?
We say the verb as “we had to SEP’-A’-RATE’ the two boys that were fighting”, but we do not say in using the adjective “we had to put them in SEP’-A’-RATE’ rooms”, we say “SEP’-ER-AT rooms”

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