The Sperrys: Season's Greetings... with pictures :o)

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Season's Greetings... with pictures :o)

As promised, here are some pictures John took last night.

This is the result of moving Ellie to the couch after she fell asleep on the floor.

You can see a somewhat naked Eleanor asleep in the background before we moved her to the couch.

There were some pictures of John, but he doesn't like them enough to have them on the blog :(

4 comments:

Libby said...: Love the pictures! You guys are so cute!; December 13, 2008 at 8:25 PM
rsperryhouse said...: One word. BEAUTIFUL!!!
Love you guys.
Love,
DeLynne; December 13, 2008 at 8:30 PM
vdhfamtng said...: Hey guys! Love the photos! You guys are all so photogenic. I understand about John not wanting pics of himself on the website yet (though I am anxious to see how great he must look with all of that weight gone). You don't see any of me on ours and there is a very good reason for that! :); December 15, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Cindy said...: Wonderful pictures!!! Arwen looks so much like you Sarah!!; December 15, 2008 at 7:09 PM

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John and Sarah's Grammar Tips

Lesson 4: Should have looked up what "of" means! Welcome back bloggers to the Sperry Grammar Hospital. Here we like to heal the grammatically sick and afflicted. Today's treatment deals with a very important and often misused verb conjugation: the past participle. This one is, as we thought, pretty easy to understand, but many seem to think that the word "of" (which is a preposition) is a verb. If you go back far enough you will remember hearing something in elementary school about the "helping verb". Well this is what we're talking about. The helping verb in case is "to have". How many times have you written or seen written a sentence like this one: "I should of bought that car". See anything wrong with that sentence. If you don't, then you are our audience. The word "of" in that sentence is incorrect. That should be "have", because in this case we are dealing with the "Past Participle" or a subjunctive tense; something that should have happened, but didn't. You can't use "of" here because "of" is a preposition (a word that tells the relationship of two objects to each other). In this tense, the verb requires the help of the verb "have". Written correctly, the sentence would look like this: "I should have bought that car." Many times people also use the wrong verb conjugation in the past participle as well, but that's another lesson all together. So remember, if you say "should" or "could", make sure it's "have" not "of".

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Season's Greetings... with pictures :o)

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