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Grammar with Hieroglyphics

November 8, 2013 by Stephen Mayeux

Hieroglyphics are an American underground hip hop collective based in Oakland, California. The collective was founded in the early-1990s by rapper Del tha Funkee Homosapien. The collective is currently composed of rappers Del the Funky Homosapien, Casual, Pep Love, producer/manager Domino, DJ Toure, and the four individual members of the rap group Souls of Mischief: Phesto, A-Plus, Opio, and Tajai. The Hieroglyphics combine fundamentally sound deliveries and lyrical content with original and sometimes jazzy or funky beats and samples. Since their inception, Hieroglyphics have found a following largely through their live concerts, podcasts (“Hierocasts”), and promotion through their website (taken verbatim from Wikipedia).

Hieroglyphics.
Hip-hop is vintage.
Underground like silos
launching long-range ballistics.
World-renowned. We ground-breaking.
Musical boundaries.
Running circles around emcees.

Grammar: ‘Until’ and ‘By’

You’re making some green?
But not for glamour or fashion.
I’m stacking cash until I can get Moms a mansion.

Until is a common preposition of time, and we use it to express actions that continue to a point in time and stop. Use €œuntil€ with the past, present and future.

  • I am 27 years old. I lived with my parents until I was 18. Therefore, I moved out of my parents house nine years ago.
  • He€™s working until 9 pm tonight, so I imagine he€™ll be very tired.
  • My boss from work will be unavailable until next week, so I can€™t ask her for a raise right now.

Many people shorten €œuntil€ into €™til or €™till.

A commonly confused preposition of time is by. This word means no later than or before.

  • My professor wants my essay by 5pm today.  It€™s 2pm right now, so I only have three hours to write it. Can you drive me to the library?!
  • The flight has been delayed a few hours, but we should be boarding by 9pm. It€™s 6pm right now, so I don€™t think we have enough time to leave the ariport to play golf.

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Stephen Mayeux is the founder of ESLhiphop.com. He used to be an English Teacher, but now he lives in Austin, TX and works as a software developer.

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