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Harbinger Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Grammer

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00I saw this sentence on a internet posting. Is this verb "hittings" 02br
00grammatically correct ? 02br
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00"Tools for hittings things to make them loose or to tighten them up or 02br
00jar their many complex, sophisticated electrical parts in such a 02br
00manner that they function perfectly." 02br
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00Thank you for your time. 0-
  

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0 I must confess I don't understand the sentence, but "hittingS" isn't correct. I should be "hitting". 0-

— Pieanne

  • 0 I must confess I don't understand the sentence, but "hittingS" isn't correct.
  • I should be "hitting".
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0 I must confess I don't understand the sentence, but "hittingS" isn't correct. I should be "hitting". 0-
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0 Four observations, Harbinger... 02br
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001. 'Grammer' is a misspelling of 'grammar'. 02br
002. 'a internet' should be 'an Internet'. 02br
002. The quoted phrase is not a sentence. 02br
003. 'hittings' should be 'hitting'. 02br
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00My apologies if that's more than you wanted? 0-
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0 Hi Davkett, 02br
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00Thanks for pointing out my mistakes. 02br
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00Actually, I frequently see others use the verb "hittings"... 02br
00Is this grammatically correct or is there any situation where "hittings" is 02br
00correctly used. 02br
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0 Yes, in the plural of the following definition. 02br
00[n] the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" 0-
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0 Harbinger, 02br
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00'Hittings' would be used as a noun, not a verb. 0-
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0 Hittings is not a verb. If anything, it's a noun plural - except it isn't. The Verb is "to hit" and the noun is "a hit" whose plural is "some hits". 02br
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00However, the Americans do strange things with words! For example, in English we would say: "The chair cost only five pounds - a saving of two pounds". An American would say: "The chair cost only ten dollars - a savi
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0 Sorry, but "hitting" is a noun (see above). 02br
00And "saving" is a noun too, except that in this sentence it's not correct to put it in the plural. 0-
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0 'Hittings' could be like 'beatings' as in: 02br
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00How many abusive hittings have you sufffered?....meaning how many occasions when someone was continuously hitting you. 02br
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00(Funny, online M-W Dictionary does not show 'hit' as a noun.) 02br
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00-A strange American 02br
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00OOps, it was my computer
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0 Hi Pieanne, 02br
00I'm uncertain about which sentence you say is an incorrect use of 'savings'. In America, we have a 'savings' accounts in the bank. 02br
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00Would that explain the 'strange' American use of the plural here? 0-
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0 A savings' account is an account where you put all your savingS, that is AN account for savingS. 02br
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00 "The chair cost only ten dollars - a savings of four dollars". 12blockquote
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00In the above sentence, you saved $4 in one operation, so ONE saving; it could be "a 4-dollar saving", but then you wouldn't put
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