By Anonymous - 31/10/2011 10:09 - United Kingdom

Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
I agree, your life sucks 37 047
You deserved it 4 402

Same thing different taste

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I'm fairly positive that due to the quotation marks OP's professor was the one who used the wrong form.

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I'm torn as to whether the quote marks were used for emphasis (which would make the "to" the OP's own words) or if they were quoted from the professor (in which case, wouldn't a student who professes to write correctly make proper use of [sic])?

I don't believe you either! You can't even spell "TOO" right!!!!

Marcella1016 31

I was actually wondering what the essay being overdue had to do with anything. Seems like unnecessary information. Maybe OP thinks that besides their professor being an idiot, the professor was being spiteful and just nitpicking because it was late?

KiddNYC1O 20

I hope you pointed that out...

Your teacher is a dumbass and probably jealous of you.

OP should write a paper on the correct usage of "to, too, and two". also "there, they're and their" and "your and you're". ;)

drawmesunshine 17
RedPillSucks 31

What he is referring to for the FML is that he got accused of plagiarism. The other problem is that the teacher said it was "to" good. That's improper grammar and sad mistake that an English teacher would make.

The easiest way to uncover plagiarism is when bad students do well on writing assignments. For example you failed every test but turned in a quality paper. That's how your prof figured it out.

That's to bad, OP. It is horrible that this happened too you and I hope your not two upset about it; however, you're professor is right. You could learn a thing or too from him. Really, though, that's pretty dumb. FYL.