{"id":289,"date":"2003-05-09T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2003-05-09T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:49:36","slug":"mind-your-nouns-and-tenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/05\/mind-your-nouns-and-tenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind your nouns and tenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as i was riding the bus home early because I was coming home sick, a young man got on the bus. He handed the bus driver a ticket, and then made some gestures like he needed to say more.<\/p>\n<p>After trying to understand him for a moment, the bus driver said, &#8220;I speak six languages, but I do not speak American Sign Language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The young man gave up and sat down.<\/p>\n<p>He had been motioning that he wanted to write something down. But he didn&#8217;t have any paper. I happened to have a pad on me.<\/p>\n<p>I took it out, and wrote down:<\/p>\n<p>What do you need?<\/p>\n<p>I handed him the pad and pen:<\/p>\n<p><em>I told him that I did paid ticket at the metro rail transfer to bus should give me ticket is some<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You want another transfer?<\/p>\n<p><em>I gave him my ticket need to change a bus ticket. also i paid ticket at the metro rail machines<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You need another tranfer or what? a &#8216;transfer&#8217; is a ticket that lets you get on the next bus.<\/p>\n<p><em>I need a ticket because my grammar isn&#8217;t good. but most of time I using on american sign laguage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, if you need another bus pass, you need to pay for it. He will give you one.<\/p>\n<p><em>I did gave him of my ticket. I was paid a ticket machine at the metro rail, can rail transfer to bus don&#8217;t need I another to pay a ticket just I gave him give me one a ticket. if I not paid only metro rail it mean i can&#8217;t get another a ticket<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you need something else? You are riding the bus now<\/p>\n<p><em>Just forgot about that I&#8217;ll pay other but I knew depend on the people force to the people to pay but i knew about rule MTA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then it was time for him to get off the bus. He blew me a kiss and held his hands to his heart, mouthing the words &#8216;thank you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He was very nice, I thought. A nice deaf young man.<br \/>\nI really wish I could have understood what he meant.<\/p>\n<p>All this, I write, to illustrate the<br \/>\nIMPORTANCE OF GRAMMAR<\/p>\n<p>There are times when it is very important to be understood. Constructing sentences with subjects, objects, verbs and prepositions really helps out with being understood.<\/p>\n<p>I wish that boy luck, but man, he needs to study his grammar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as i was riding the bus home early because I was coming home sick, a young man got on the bus. 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