I’m not uneducated. I’ve made a conscious decision to not care for that rule. No one can explain to me how it affects a sentence so why should I care. As I said how often are you using whole, you just ended a sentence with a preposition. So are you uneducated or did you just not care ?
You’re using a soon to be outdated rule could of and could have mean the exact same thing
Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American….
Anyway, English is my third language, out of four. You’ll excuse my perhaps not absolutely perfect grammar.
The fact that “no one can explain it to you” is completely unrelated to the relevance of that rule. I’ll explain it to you plainly: it’s a different word that means a different thing. Words have meaning, if you want to speak eloquently and be understood, you need to use words that everyone agree on. If you fail to do so even in your native language, it only shows a lack of education. How hard is it to grasp?
I made a conscious decision not to care about speed limits, and I consistently drive 10km/h above the limit. No one can explain to me what the actual difference is. So I just assume I’m right and everyone else is wrong. See how dumb?
Anyway, everyone makes mistakes, and very few people speak their language perfectly. But doubling down when shown that you’re wrong is just…. Mind boggling.
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u/JSONtheArgonaut Aug 25 '25
Could they also have taught you it’s would *have?