10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback see, saw, have seen. This drives me crazy. People more and more it seems use the wrong tense in their sentences.e.g I seen that error. I seen Joe at the store. They seem to use seen as an all-purpose verb.
[June 7, 2006, 18:04]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback You missed another primary mistake people make all the time. That is using "O"'s for zeros. There is no letter named zero and there is no number representing "O". I can not spell LOOK as L zero zero k nor should you ba able to substitue "O" for...
[June 7, 2006, 17:58]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback The most ubiquitous sin is the mistake of using "me" where "I" would be the correct choice, as in "He's bigger than me" instead of the correct "He's bigger than I. The correct choice can be seen when you finish the truncated sentence: He's bigger...
[June 7, 2006, 17:03]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Many people don't know when to use "fewer" and when to use "less. Once it was pointed out to me, I began to see this mistake quite frequently, even on the local news.
[June 7, 2006, 16:41]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback No: "try and" - Yes: "try to" - This one annoys me every time I hear it.
[June 7, 2006, 16:07]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Good article. A common mistake I notice, mostly in speech, not text is the use of the pronoun "I" when "me" would be correct. I" is used as a subject in a sentence, but "me" is used when the pronoun is a predicate.
[June 7, 2006, 1:48]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback "Could care less"- if that is the case, then make a decision! If you are indifferent, you "could NOT care less. I hear this mispoken or written incorrectly 99.9% of the time, and it drives me batty. If you think about what you are saying, the...
[September 7, 2006, 15:49]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback OK, I will. Not at thing.is not a sentence, 2) makes no sense, 3) makes me think you heard it from another meth addict. I know a computer programmer I work with who tries to explain stuff and when his mind won't come up with the right words, he...
[October 3, 2006, 19:52]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Totally! I can get a bee in my bonnet seeing common mistakes like the ones listed. After reading some of the comments, I feel compelled to respond. The one pertaining to the usage of "me". They told me WHY, and that is, use the "me" or "I" in the...
[August 23, 2006, 23:48]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback how about the old "you and I" vs. You and me"?
[June 7, 2006, 15:27]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Few people really know the difference between i.e.and e.g.anyway, which is why they are used incorrectly so frequently. A better one to place on the list would have been the misuse of "I" and "me".
[June 7, 2006, 12:08]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback What about "myself? We've all been taught that we don't say "Johnny and me," we say "Johnny and I," but we haven't been taught WHY. The lesson that seems to be learned is that "me" is a word we shouldn't use, not that it's incorrect grammatically...
[June 7, 2006, 6:33]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback But what about: That's me? And You and me?
[July 3, 2006, 10:16]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback We do not expect non-native English speakers to have perfect grammar; that would be silly. With that said, I usually see better grammar and spelling from non-native than from us native (especially American) speakers.
[June 7, 2006, 15:33]
What Bugs Me :
Talkback The other thing is people who say grammar isn't important. I think that anyone who learned the rules of English grammar finds it hard to break them, and it annoys me when people say they don't matter, I don't quite get how "We was" can sound right...
[February 3, 2008, 16:42]
Urgent, British People Help Needed!!!
Talkback I am a international student, have been here one year. In my mind, Britain is a great country and Brithish people are very friendly. That's why I came here to study my master degree. If you are british people, if you are free, do you mind take your...
[August 20, 2006, 1:35]
"Data" *is* A Mass Noun
Talkback The word "data" used as a plural noun is little more than an antiquated status marker used in more formal contexts. You make the claim that "data" couldn't be counted if it were a mass noun, but, in fact, one rarely, if ever, counts "data".
[August 15, 2007, 17:49]
I Could Go On And On...
Talkback But the one that drives me crazy is when people pronounce the letter H (aitch) as haitch. AAAARGH! For God’s sake look in the dictionary! I know it’s not a grammatical error; it’s just ignorance. Also, how about phenomena instead of phenomenon, as...
[April 13, 2007, 17:05]
I/Me - You Need A Subject, A Verb And An Object
Talkback it's incorrect to assume that "He's bigger than I" is the truncated version of "He's bigger than I am". A correctly formed sentence needs a subject (He); a verb (is) and an object (me). The sentence "He's bigger than me" is not a shortened version...
[April 25, 2007, 13:08]
