6 Grammatical Errors That Need to Stop Now

July 09, 2015 | Jonathan Long

[This_far]

Well it was concerning and of concern to me when I had to hunt and peck/retype a page of a school thingy on an old
Remington typewriter

Galdarn typewritters that print the wrong letters, must have been in bed with bigpaper, bigerasors and bigribbon.

They were all conspiring to keep a typewriter owning family down.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yer prolly right. :-)

[Smokin' Joe]

The state just mandated a minimum 5 page paper for each intro class, and the professors are in a justified tizzy about how they will get the students to write a paper that long.

Sadly, that emphasizes quantity rather than quality of content. Thankfully, many of college professors wanted concise and definitive writing rather than placing emphasis on volume. The best grades went to those who could fully and completely express a concept in as few words as necessary.

[redhead]

Good luck. I have been tearing my hair out for years over these mistakes in presumably educated journalists’ works, all to no avail. Now bald, I have had to resort to wearing a wig, which comes off more easily and much less painfully, but the problem still persists.

[arthurus]

I wouldn’t know. The only “texting” I do is on this keyboard.

[murron]

Would of or could of instead of would’ve or could’ve, contractions for would have or could have.

[redhead]

“Those who” and “that which” seem to have become interchangeable in some circles.

[Cyman]

My poisonal favorite is when someone tells me they are nauseous. I always quickly agree and turn my head

[redhead]

"And, students, remember your ADVERBS! It’s not “Eat Local”, it’s “Eat Locally”....sheesh!"

Unless they mean, "Lo-Cal."

[Smokin' Joe]

There is an ongoing battle between those who use and understand English, and those who flood their communications with pseudo-intellectual jargon designed to make their job seem more difficult and erudite to those who haven't been taught the secret handshake.

I have seen this used by Social Workers and Grievance Studies types and it comes off like the Bowery Boys. Simple concepts expressed in other than simple language for any reason other than to provide clarity in meaning are mere obfustications.

[HandyDandy]

“How do you think that’s gonna play out down the road?”

[Bob]

While I have been known to occasionally split an infinitive, I’m quite certain that a preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with. :=)

[IronJack]

And then there's the specious use of apostrophe's, the use of "half to" instead of "have to" to mean "required," the literal torture of "literal," and the confusion of nominative and objective case, something my friends and me don't ever engage in.

And let's not talk about splitting infinitives and dangling prepositions ...

[Yaelle]

Apostrophes where they don’t belong!

The Smith’s
555 Owl Rd
Your town, Your state

Aaarrrrgh! You can see these bad apostrophes even on billboards these days. No one has a clue.

[libbylu]

ensure and insure - you pay to insure. Well paid CEO of transcription firm used insure in an email to staff, duh.
My biggest is spoken. I seen..Who ever heard Hank Williams sing “I seen the light”?

[huldah1776]

commas. oy vey.

[HandyDandy]

“All of a sudden, I became disorientated by the nucular blast.”

[Yaelle]

Um, you spelled Laz wrong...

[B4Ranch]

The author is speaking in the past tense. Chose is correct.

[HandyDandy]

I, hear ya, Oftentimes, I think, that they, are apostrophes’ that, fell down.