cameron crazie said:
TGP, why are you posting drunk so much lately? “compared to the atrocities embodied in the misspelling ‘thanxx'”? If you’re going to go with that structure, you need an “of” between “misspelling” and “thanxx”. Alternatively, you could just remove “the”. In any case, I don’t know how you’re qualified to correct other people’s grammar when your own is rather poor …. pwned.
Review the following sentences:
I wanted to use the word “thanxx.”
I wanted to use the word of “thanxx.”
I wanted to use word “thanxx.”
‘Misspelling’ is being used as a noun (just as the word ‘word’ is in the sentences above), not a verb, so removing the definite article (‘the’) can not be done. Adding the word “of” is unnecessary. The wording used in my reply was grammatically correct.
By the way, the period in a sentence goes before any closing quotes.
“pwned”