Grammatical mistakes EVERYONE makes

[Acier]

Not grammar, but the "Are there any woman here?" thread made me think of it.

And no not the misuse of Woman.

When people mix up gender and sex. It's a pet peeve of mine, although everyone thinks they're interchangable when they aren't!

Sex= Physical sexual organs, female/male. This is absolute black and white
Gender= Mental femininity/ masculinity. Is not 100% (can be mostly feminine with a few masculine traits) and has nothing to do with what's between your legs.

 

[Mr Montmorency]

I get infinately annoyed with people who fail to notice the finer points in grammar.

Infinitely.

It's also not "definately". Definitely.

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I'm a grammar nazi. Sue me.

 

[Edorf]

His - He's
Their - They're
Once - Ones

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

Disagreement in numnber.

 

[Tourette]

Apostrophes in names is a very common mistake where the ' is placed before the s in plural.

 

[Antiparticle]

"the game is great but the ending is it's weak point"

Almost everyone does that, I see it a million times per day.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

I get infinately annoyed with people who fail to notice the finer points in grammar.

Infinitely.

It's also not "definately". Definitely.

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I'm a grammar nazi. Sue me.

If you were a true grammar Nazi you would have A) capitalized Nazi and B) commented on the lack of apostrophy in the image.

Please hand in your badge by the door.

 

[pliusmannn]

fu. why do you even bother? k, ok, okay, whatever?

 

[blankedboy]

I just love it when people neglect to use semi-colons; it's really not hard to use them correctly.

i see what u did thar

Anyways, freakin' 'effect' and 'affect'. How hard can it be??

 

[Woodsey]

Surely grammar is sentence structure? In which case, it's a little ironic you want common mistakes in grammar and then provide a spelling mistake as an example. And besides, Chrome accepts "OK" meaning you just put a lower case K (which would be wrong).

Saying "OK" is incorrect is like saying "they're" is incorrect.

Am I the only one who's annoyed by the grammar in the OP's post? Was it intended to be ironic?

Just noticed that as well. Commas all over the place!

 

[Cody211282]

It's the internet, as long as I can tell what they are trying to say I'm rather happy.

 

[Alex Cowan]

@tomtom94

You ninja'd that video

At least I'm not the only one who found that hilarious.

OT: People saying "Haitch" just bugs me. There's a difference between a grammar error and just simply being ignorant.

 

[deus-ex-machina]

How many of the self confessed 'grammar nazis' are over 16? I genuinely care.

I used to care about grammar.

Then I turned 16.

Around the same time, I also found an interest in science and realised as long as what I said could be understood, I really couldn't care less about the brainiacs who would still pick out errors with my grammar.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

Tor-frickin-tologies.

For example 'All eternity'. This implies that it's possible to have a bit of eternity, or half eternity.

That really annoys me.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

Furthermore:

Away / a way

Shoot / shot / shooting / shoots / shots

 

[Shoqiyqa]

I see a lot of people misuse "it's" and "its". When browsing online forums, grammar tends not to bother me as much. But in real life or even on Facebook, misused words drive me nuts.(Sorry to the person who hates seeing the word 'but' at the beginning of a sentence, but there are times in which it is legitimate.)

But for a few special cases, it should not be there. "But" should not be the first word in a sentence other than sentences like these two.

When browsing online forums, grammar tends not to bother me as much, but in real life or even on Facebook, misused words drive me nuts.

F.T.F.Y.

 

[QuickDEMOL1SHER]

Wow. Thank Escapist for proving what an elitist filled site you are.

I believe that should be thankS, Escapist.

I knew as soon as I started typing that response, that someone would not be able to resist correcting SOMETHING in it.
Actually it was supposed to be "Thank you". I often forget words when I am typing.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

I still don't funny understand the correct implementation of ; (comma + dot)...the semicolon!

There are two proper uses of that punctuation mark. One is to separate long items in a list. The other is between two related sentences. I shall provide examples.

Our available escape routes are: before the first summit, to return via Scale Force; between the first two summits, the steps below Blea Tarn; between the second and fourth summits, Scarth Gap Pass; between the fourth and fifth summits, Warn Scale Bottom and after the fifth summit, Fleetwith Ridge.

We are equipped to make the journey as one group or two; each team of four has a full set of gear.

There are also two uses for the colon. One is, as illustrated above, to introduce a list, quote or example. The other is between two contrasting sentences. An example follows

Within the palace walls, the royal family lived in luxury: beyond them, the ordinary people slowly started.

There is a third use of the semi-colon as the terminator of a command line in C, and another kind of colon has its own use in the digestive tract, but those need not concern us here.

 

[Arcanite Ripper]

I find nearly everyday that i read paragraphs and stories even throughout the countless teachings of the grade-school english and literary programs there are still people who type out run-on sentences to me and other inherited english-quippers it becomes slightly annoying not understanding where a sentence can start end and break without punctuary marks detailing where such indications can be it gets baffling sometimes knowing how many cases of such grammatical errors can still be made to this day am I right?

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