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Two minor errors in 1 word - sm

Posted: Jun 19, 2015

Email from HDSM wishing a happy Father's Day to "all the Dad's on the team."

Minor error for unecessary capitalization of dad. -0.25

Minor error for using an appostrophe on a plural. -0.25

Score: 99.5. Passing is 99.6. Failed. Please think of why you did this and how you will improve. Please reply with your reponse and when would be the best time to reach you for a phone conference.

Two minor errors - WHERE IS THE LOVE IT BUTTON

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So many times this has crossed my mind! We get emails with typo after typo and stupid errors from them and yet they demand perfection?!?

Whatever happened to teach by example?

I do not have #3 Book of Style, but I was told you were to capitalize Mom and Dad - anon

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when there is no 'noun' in front of it. Don't know the new ruling because why buy this book for 75 dollars when I have the 2nd Edition and make 4 cents. I would think that by the QA that Dad in this case would be capitalized, but surely not the apostrophe. Who cares anyway...surely not Dads.

what I learned. - when to cap

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if you can replace the pronoun with a name and it still makes sense, then it needs to be capped. On a side note, MM doesn't use BOS3, and BOS2 is the bottom of the totem pole of references. MM uses the DQS Standards and Transcription Style Guide above all.

That would be wrong - LDSMT

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mom and dad are only capitalized if you can replace the word with a name and it still make sense. "All the dads" would not be capitalized.

"Informed consent was obtained from mom and dad" Mom and dad would be capitalized because you could replace with "Informed consent was obtained from Mary and John."

"Informed consent was obtained from the mom" Mom would not be capitalized because you cannot say, informed consent was obtained from the Mary.

So you are saying her example - is right?

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Happy fathers day to all the Dads in our group, because it can be replaced with Happy fathers day to all the Joes in our group?

Absolutely not, your example is not even correct. - LDSMT

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Does your example, even remotely mean the same thing as the original sentence? Not at all, so I don't know what you are trying to prove. I think we all know if the word "the" is in front of it, it cannot be replaced by a name, and I'm sure all the dads are not named Joe. Really your post wasn't even worth the time to respond, but, alas, I did anyway.

ewww - you are a plesant soul, arent ya

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I despise condesending, rude know-it-alls!

Not condescending, nor do I know it all. - LDSMT

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I am actually a very pleasant person, but when replying to a post with ill logic, maybe it sounded that way.

Question - stingray

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What is wrong with this sentence:
The remainder of the review of systems has been reviewed and are negative.

Answer - sm

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I'm not LDSMT, but it should be "is negative."

"Remainder is" or "remainder are" is dependent upon "review of systems." As review is singular, it should be "is."

If it was "the remainder of the systems," it would "are."

Answer - stingray

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Thank you so much. It makes more sense the way you explained it than what I was given. Still sounds not right to me. I thought the has should have been corrected as have. Why is this a 0.25 error when it has nothing to do with patient care.

Do any of you know what - nouns, verbs, adverbs

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adjectives, verb conjugation, sentence diagramming, transient and intransient verbs are.

And you all think you are so hot.

This is a troll, DO NOT FEED. - NM

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xx

Very Hot - stingray

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Just reaching out for some help from the MTs I work with. Sometimes after words and words are typed together I need a brush up on my grammar. Still very hot MT, etc.

line out "of the ROS" as it is a - val

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prepositional phrase. Your subject is remainder, so the sentence should be: The remainder (of the...) has been reviewed and is negative.

The word remainder is singular.

and that earlier post -- the poster meant transitive and intransitive verbs.

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