Why correct English is important!

[FnG]magnolia;21860750 said:
"It's" would refer to the the first part - 'Correct English ...'

"They're" could refer to the capital letters.

Does this make both correct?
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I would say "Correct English" is really the subject of the sentence.
 
Ricochet J said:
Surely this is wrong:



That translates to "they are the difference between;". To use the word "are" indicates the use of a plural, but he used the singular terms "the difference" when I believe he should have just used the plural "differences". If there is only one difference between the statements then I believe he should have used "There is a difference between;"

AMIRITE, or wrong?
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You could rephrase it to remove ambiguity but it is saying that capital letters are the difference between X situation and Y situation i.e. capital letters are the "they" in this point. I'd have said it was correct if perhaps a little clumsy in expression.

ScoTTyBEEE said:
Because it's helping your uncle Jack off a horse, you would capitalise Uncle Jack if it wasn't preceded with your. "Helping Uncle Jack off a horse".
The sentence should be "Helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse".
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Commas and capitals would be better grammatically speaking. To illustrate the particular point here I'd put the sentences as:
"Helping your Uncle Jack, off a horse" and
"Helping your uncle jack off a horse"
Bear in mind the latter could have uncle capitalised or not, it could be a specific uncle who you were helping with that particular task or it could be a general description of any uncle that you were helping.
 
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A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

'Well, I'm a panda,' he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'
 
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