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There's not an apostrophe in "woulda". :P[/quote]

Little known rule: using apostrophes to mark dropped sounds in reported colloquial speech. E.g. the ol' gray mare, I ain' gon' do it, come back...

Nice example :)

Leaving all the rhetoric aside for a moment, let us consider a couple of things.

1 There are grammar "rules". This is another way of saying that in many or most cases English and other languages...

You seem to be laboring under the illusion that there are absolute rules for grammar aside from actual usage. If the forum readers want to learn English the way it is spoken by actual English...

Lots of English learners have trouble with contractions, so I thought I'd add that in. Maybe someone else will learn something. I hope I didn't insult your intelligence.

"He is taller than me" is what most people say. "He is taller than I am" is also correct.

Maybe some grammar book will have "He is taller than I", but no one says this.

Just a word about...