6 Grammatical Errors That Need to Stop Now

July 09, 2015 | Jonathan Long

[Vendome]

Grammar Nazi’s do that alot...

[Drew68]

Lose/loose/loser/looser

[Fiddlstix]

Nailed It !

[goodwithagun]

I see what you did their.

[rickomatic]

Using a double subject in a sentence. This is done all the time in broadcast media.

"Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, she is considered a liar"

[KC_Lion]

[squarebarb]

‘Each other’ and ‘one another’. I always get them mixed up. I think ‘each other’ is between two people, ‘one another’ is a lot -— like a crowd. ‘Hearing the announcement, they all looked at one another’. And ‘Tom and Susan were shouting at each other’.

Is that right?

[Nep Nep]

effect/affect is like quickie IQ test

[AdaGray]

How about ‘Try and...’ instead of ‘Try to...’ do something.

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

Less/fewer. This drives me nuts.

[FlJoePa]

I’ve always had a problem with #6. I understand the use of the apostrophe for the contraction of “it is” - but the non-use of it when dealing with possession has always puzzled me.

[SamAdams76]

What annoys me is when people say "I could care less" when they actually probably mean "I couldn't care less."

So when they say the former, I usually say "So you care at least a little?"

[Bobalu]

Someone did a cartoon, I think it was in the New Yorker.
It had a guy hanging in a room, stool kicked out from beneath him.

A guy was reading the suicide note.
“I have nothing to loose, goodbye cruel world”

The guy reading the note says... “It’s lose you idiot, lose!”

[Lopeover]

Your point is well taken. As I age, it is harder for me to keep these straight. So pardon me. I will do the best I can.

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

You can’t effect me with that affect.

[Vendome]

“Listen!!! Can you smell that?”

[StormEye]

We're == we are
were = second person singular; past subjunctive of be (to be)

[rktman]

According to Lazmatazz’ assessment of one of my comments this morning, I guess I need to pay attention to this post. :>}

[Redbob]

Take these up with Google and the lazy slackers that write their “Autocorrect” algorithms.