This thread is for tropers who have trouble with English and would like some help with the crazy grammar of this crazy language.
Write down what you wish to edit on the wiki. If you have been suspended from editing, another troper might be kind enough to edit for you after your suggestions have been corrected.
The thread is for help and feedback on your own suggested edits.
If you want help correcting other people's edits (e.g., if you find a page which seems to have grammar problems but want a second opinion, or you don't feel able to fix it by yourself) then that's off-topic here, but we have a separate Grammar Police cleanup thread
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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM
- Memetic Badass: Akkun's actions of frequently taking down Yoshiko give
anotherother gender equality followers (Touma) /Thot-slayers (Kazuma) a run for their money.- The noun-verb have to match ("Akkun's actions...give", since it is a plural noun). If it were "Akkun's action", then it would be "Akkun's action...gives..."
- I don't understand what "gender equality followers / Thot-slayers" is supposed to mean.
- Memetic Loser: Poor Karen Hojo will never catch a break, as her weak body makes her a subject for mockery, on whether she'll die from collapse, or if she's a ghost
thatwho already died long before.- "that" is to be used for objects; "who" is to be used for people.
to nombretomado: Responding to this comment
Then how about:
Akkun's actions of frequently taking down Yoshiko give other characters like Touma and Kazuma a run for their money.
Edited by FigureGunplaFan on Aug 13th 2019 at 12:35:13 AM
Contributor for Gunpla Wiki. Currently suspended due to extensive writing issues. PS: I only wrote down what I saw. (audience reactions etc)- Memetic Mutation: Try not to laugh if you spell and/or say Xerxes' name backwards.
- If you are creating a pair of verbs, the tense should match, i.e. both present tense, or both past tense. Since the rules are to write in historical present tense, this should be "spell and/or say" (not "spelled and/or said").
OK, how about...
"Many fans frequently mock Rin's gender as her being a crossdressing boy since the first season's fourth episode, as the three boys in Rin's flashback made fun of her wearing a skirt."
Contributor for Gunpla Wiki. Currently suspended due to extensive writing issues. PS: I only wrote down what I saw. (audience reactions etc)- Take That!: Parodied with Tsuki's debut in the movie: the reveal of her true gender surprises many people (both in-and-out of universe) who expected her to be a male character
both in-and-out of universe.- The placement of the "both in-and-out of universe" in your write-up is off. Tagging it at the end implies it is the being a male character that is both in-and-out of universe, when you are actually trying to say that the audience in-and-out of universe is surprised.
- You also need improved context, to explain how this is an example of Take That!, and how it's parodied.
Also, wrong date for the image caption for the Love Live's Memetic Loser page, as the screencap of the episode is aired in 2013.
Contributor for Gunpla Wiki. Currently suspended due to extensive writing issues. PS: I only wrote down what I saw. (audience reactions etc)- While this is seen as a joke, several fans believe that both Love Live! and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's universes are actually connected to each other with many Shout Outs:
, which they also doubt on whether the coincidental ShoutOuts in the former show is completely intentional at all.-
Most of the pieces of evidence they can get isNozomi's "The Star (which is Star Platinum's)" tarot card
◊, Dia's similar finger-pointing gesture
◊, Mari giving the familiar big OMG
◊, The MIRACLE
◊ WAVE's star
◊ face tattoo
◊ resembling the Joestar birthmark, and the similarity between the Awaken the Power's art cover
◊ with this picture
◊.
- The promo for Ultra Jump's January 2019 issue
alsohas Abbacchio's voice actor (Junichi Suwabe) speaking out the name of the franchise. - Fans speculate
assumethateitherone of the characters from Golden Wind could make a possible Lawyer-Friendly Cameo in the Over The Rainbow movie, though the very closest cameo (via speculation) they can get is Tsuki being a Love Live-fied version of Narancia Ghirga, as seen in that one theory
.
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- The struck-through part on the first line seems to be both nattery and contradicting the argument in the first part of the sentence.
- Please always check your write-ups to make sure they are in the correct tense. Many of the corrections I've given you are for the tense.
- Are they speculating, or assuming? As this is in Epileptic Trees, and mostly seen as a joke (per the first line), assumption seems too strong a word.
- "though the very closest cameo (via speculation) they can get is Tsuki being a Love Live-fied version of Narancia Ghirga, as seen in that one theory
."
- This is just a very strangely worded phrase within the paragraph. Are they speculating a character could appear, and Tsuki is just one example of this? Or is the Tsuki theory the only theory?
To nombretomado: Responding to this comment
- Several fans believe that both Love Live! and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's universes are actually connected to each other with many Shout Outs:
- Nozomi's "The Star (which is Star Platinum's)" tarot card
◊, Dia's similar finger-pointing gesture
◊, Mari giving the familiar big OMG
◊, The MIRACLE
◊ WAVE's star
◊ face tattoo
◊ resembling the Joestar birthmark, and the similarity between the Awaken the Power's art cover
◊ with this picture
◊.
- The promo for Ultra Jump's January 2019 issue also has Abbacchio's voice actor (Junichi Suwabe) speaking out the name of the franchise
.
- Nozomi's "The Star (which is Star Platinum's)" tarot card
The fourth and last example is not needed.
Edited by FigureGunplaFan on Aug 13th 2019 at 2:01:03 AM
Contributor for Gunpla Wiki. Currently suspended due to extensive writing issues. PS: I only wrote down what I saw. (audience reactions etc)I was reading Correction Bait and the following sentence gave me pause. Is it grammatically correct? I emphasized the part that tripped me up.
Personally, I'd have gone with: "[..] to a picky/smart enough audience [...]", but since the above is part of the trope description (and therefore has been approved by someone, right?), I thought I'd check with this thread before making any "corrections".
- Fly, robin, fly! - ...I'm trying!
I've edited in Zuxtron's version. The phrase "an enough [adjective] [noun]" is bad grammar - and it's apparently been there since 2012. Ironically, the editor who inflicted that phrase on the page also corrected the deliberate "Decribe Correction Bait here" spelling error and the commented out note saying the spelling error was deliberate.
The grammar is fine, but I question the second bulletpoint - is it confirmed that this is why the cameos didn't happen?
Also, "small cameo appearance" is redundant, since cameos are by definition small.
This edit
isn't going to be added, since there is already an entry for Box-Office Bomb on Trivia.Godzilla King Of The Monsters 2019.
These
two
were already addressed by other tropers.
This post
: I don't see any grammar issues here, but, again, your context is lacking on how it was emphasized.
This
, this
, and this
were responded to by another troper.
I have to say, a lot of your issues go beyond just grammar.
Edited by nombretomado on Aug 12th 2019 at 4:38:06 AM
- Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Tsuki an undercover spy working for the Ohara family? Some of her actions (like picking up a random call from a phone booth, ignoring the wanted poster of the Third Years, and her politely bowing to Mrs. Ohara) may have raised some eyebrows. However, as she began to support Aqours after visiting Italy, this might have indicated that she finally forgets her duty as a spy in the progress.
This seems more like a WMG than anything else, especially given that you tried to add this exact thing as a WMG already.
- Alternative Character Interpretation: Regarding A-RISE's losing to µ's after their performance in the UTX Academy's rooftop: did the former not expect them to win the preliminaries, or did one of their members (mainly Tsubasa) intentionally let them win for her rival's (Honoka) sake?
- The pronouns here are pretty vague. Whose performance was this?
- Memetic Mutation: Some DC fans jokingly interpret Karen Fukuhara's performance as The Female as her being genuinely insane after her role in Suicide Squad (2016).
- "Career" would be her entire body of work as an actress. This is a single role.
Edited by nombretomado on Aug 12th 2019 at 4:51:28 AM
- Fandom Rivalry: Some of the Monsterverse fans
alsodeveloped a rivalry with the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandomfor several reasons; the former also accused thelatterfranchise's popularitybeing responsiblefor overtaking the resurgence of the giant monster genre, and the box office disappointment of one of their movies due to the oversaturation of the MCU films.- Please stop using "also"/"too"/"in addition" in your write-ups when you are using it to refer to other examples.
- You're asserting there are "several reasons", but not listing any of them.
- I'm not sure what "overtaking the resurgence" is trying to say, especially if it's something other than the oversaturation described immediately after.
- Some felt that Ali al-Saachez could have been a better main antagonist of the series if the story wasn't hindered by the reveal of the Innovators or the ELSes in the later seasons.
This lacks context.
- "EAT PIE, SAY EAT PIE"[[labelnote:explanation]] A mondegreen of "Ippai seiippai" (translated as "one's best effort"), as heard in the Mitaiken HORIZON song.
- Is Mitaeken HORIZON a group/musician name, or a name of the song?

~FigureGunplaFan, this post
:
As seen in the image on this very page,Many fans frequently mock Rin's gender as her being a crossdressing boy since the first season's fourth episode.