Friday, November 13, 2009

Grammar Lesson: NWA "Straight Outta Compton" Style

All examples (with the exception of one) were taken from NWA lyrics.

Using "Your" and "You're"

You're is a contraction of you are
Example: If you're at a show in the front row, I'm going to call you a bitch or a dirty ass hoe.

Your is a possessive pronoun. In other words, it shows ownership.
Example: When I'm in your neighborhood, you better duck.

Using "Its" and "It's"

The word its is the possessive pronoun for the pronoun it.
Example: Nothing can take its place.*

It's is a contraction for it is.
Example: To my homies it's funny, but that's what you get trying to play me for my money.

Using "There," "They're," and "Their"

There is an adverb meaning "that location."
Example: There's a lot of brothers out there flaking and perpetrating.

They're is a contraction of they are.
Example: I'm tired of these mothafuckers running around town, talking about they're from Compton and shit, trying to get on the bandwagon.

Their is a possessive pronoun.
Example: Their records only make good frisbees.

Using "Then" and "Than"

Then is an adverb that refers to time.
Example: Everywhere we go they say, "Damn NWA is fucking up the program" and then you realize we don't care.

Than is a conjuction used with comparisons.
Example: "Compton's in the House" was more than gold.

Using "We're," "Where," and "Were"

We're is a contraction for we are.
Example: Mothafuckas we're about to put some salt in your game.

Where signifies a location.
Example: They kill where the hiphop starts, forget about the ghetto, and rap for the pop charts.

Were is a past tense form of the verb be:
Example: Everybody's talking that crazy shit, saying they were raised in the CPT.

Using "To," "Too," and "Two"

To is a preposition or the first part of the infinitive form of a verb.
Example: It's time to start throwing rhymes.

Too means "very" or "also."
Example: That shit's wacky wack, too.

Two is the number 2!
Example: On the streets, there's two kinds of people, white rich fucks and the ones who get harassed like me.




1 comment:

  1. Fucking genius! This needs to be published somewhere. Not kidding.

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