Could have

What do I win?

I could have.

Is there a 2nd prize?

could have and ^^^^^^^ those two cheated, what have I won 

I could have had that prize if I had have come in here earlier.

sore loser

Could have 

Nothing, due to the missing question mark.

Fanks guys.

Saz, your prize is either:

A seductive picture of me

OR

A sense of pride

Whichever one you don't pick will go to 2nd place. Ooooh what a twist!!!

true 

I was close though 

'OF' IS NOT A VERB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


(It's could 'have')

Well excuuuuuuse me Karma.

Unfortunately, where I live, 'they' speak in a simple way and usually use 'of' instead of 'have'.  I guess I was a little mis-lead by the simpletons, but at least I got it right in the first place despite doubting my intelligence. 

I'll let you off

I was awarded a grade 6 in English O-level, but I'm pretty sure that it is...
I could 'ave quit the course when I discovered with whom I was working with.

When Growly Jnr was in Year 2, she came home from school very upset because her teacher had told her off when she had challenged a correction the teacher had made to her work.  I was speechless when I looked at the correction the teacher had made - she had changed 'could have' to 'could of'.  I found her a place in a different school the following morning.

Do they not teach grammar at school any more?

Could've, would've, should've. 

Shall we start on "set foot"?

As I usually point out at this juncture. The people who mistake 'ave, have, of, off, and oven, are IMHYCO merely further evolving our rich language.

The true imbecilic rednecks are the ones who can't count, the ones who can't tell the difference between ten to the power, one, two, six, nine, or twelve. No wonder people can't grasp the concept of simple economics.

I want to do 'aitch'/'haitch' again. 

*TUT* It's shoulda woulda coulda

u lot knw nufn!

SMFH

Iggorants!

Oxford English inserted up said teacher's inner sphincter with force methinks.

Innit dough!

ROFL

I'm not actually 'rolling on floor laughing' because if I was I wouldn't be able to type it as it was actually happening.

So if you could take that term as past-tense I would be grateful. Thank you.

Wa'evs! 

Looooooooll

YAY Blizz!          Someone who thinks like me............could've    


But technically it's could have

Goodness. Just reading "could of" makes me break out in a cold sweat. **shudders**

If you can't conjugate it, it ain't a verb.



At a pinch I'd say you could get away with it if you were writing dialogue for a script and the character used "of" instead of "have". Otherwise, please no. Never of. Or I will have to hunt you down and kill you. 

Seriously.

A wee bit of artistic leeway with the English language may suit.

"Goodness. Just reading "could of" makes me break out in a cold sweat. **shudders**"





Me too

Never seen anyfink like it. That ain't nuffin' like proppa henglish but what does fanks mean> is it rhyming slang or sumfink?    

Me too .................grammatically speaking it's my biggest hate!

Do you mean has come across a line? Oooooooooooooh sorry ................I know I'm picky, picky, picky!

Cariad

Can't quote, but as for the could of thing..............I hate it

Live and let live I say. Anyway, no one's mentioned that it's undesirable to end a sentence with a preposition.

FWIW, I think the use of 'of' when it should be 'have' has come about from a dropped aitch i.e. 'ave sounds like 'of'.... it irritates me, BUT, as i get older, less so 

LTNS. 

I think the only problem is that kids aren't taught that they are saying 'could've', which can sound like 'could of', and therefore write it as 'could of'.

If they were writing 'could unt' instead of 'couldn't', then they would be pulled up on it.