poor grammar? (in General)


[SoV] Shiv [/me Forge Stuff :D] January 22 2005 8:07 PM EST

whats up with this sentence? Angelus's Fireball hit Biscuitback [3591], Angel's familiar [1648], Angel [1428], Buffy [1361] looks like my fireball is hiting my own guys :S and he has no AMF either, which shouldnt matter anyway.

Maelstrom January 22 2005 8:10 PM EST

Fireball: "Powerful ranged spell, but beware: unprotected friendly Minions will take half damage during melee rounds"

flamewind January 22 2005 8:21 PM EST

By grammar, I'll assume you mean it should be 'Fireball hits' rather than 'Fireball hit'.
BTW I never got what unprotected means, does it mean without a CoBF or something?

QBRanger January 22 2005 8:29 PM EST

yes unprotected means without a COBF on with enough +'s to protect.

InebriatedArsonist January 22 2005 8:30 PM EST

Eh, I still get a kick out of the system referring to my female character as a male.

BTW I never got what unprotected means, does it mean without a CoBF or something?

-The only minions that won't be hit by a fireball in melee are either dead or wearing a CoBF.

AdminQBGentlemanLoser [{END}] January 22 2005 9:33 PM EST

Or the caster.

Fishead January 22 2005 10:48 PM EST

Capitalize the W in "Whats" then put an apostrophe in it (What's) a contraction for what is. What is UP (?) with this sentence? "Hey! Sentence, what's up!?"

What's wrong with this sentence?

I also notice problems with their, there, and they're in most of the posts, but who am I to criticize? I can't spell. I have a dictionary with no definitions, just spelling. Thank the Cb gods for spell checker (most of the time ;).

[LB]Iceman January 22 2005 11:12 PM EST

The only thing wrong with "Angelus's Fireball hit Biscuitback [3591], Angel's familiar [1648], Angel [1428], Buffy [1361]" is that it needs a period (".") to close the sentence and, for clarity, you would need "and" before the last minion's name, though that is not entirely necessary. Also, "Angelus's" should be "Angelus'" since possessive nouns ending in "s" with three or more syllables do not require the additional "s" after the apostrophe.

"Angelus' Fireball hit Biscuitback [3591], Angel's familiar [1648], Angel [1428], and Buffy [1361]."

The "hit" rather than "hits" is correct since the sentence is past tense.
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