10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback (Note: Outlook picks up on each of these errors and suggests the correct replacement. Note: Outlook picks up on each of these errors and suggests the correct replacement, excepting the example highlighted.
[June 10, 2006, 9:54]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback The correct reply is "I haven't". And one more, pedants who think that "data are" is correct. David Wildgoose wrote: People who confuse Do and Have. There used to be a "Head and Shoulders" advert in which "I didn't know you had dandruff" is said to...
[June 9, 2006, 21:39]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback The universal condemnation of "different than" is elitest and ignores valid grammatically correct regionalisms. You are incorrect in your statment about different than/from. When used with than, a conjunction, the error is (usually) the omission of...
[June 9, 2006, 15:12]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I figure that, yes, people should try their best to use proper grammar, but today's elementary schools do not provide the same teaching that they once had. Now, teachers show you the correct way to use certain words, but don't show you why it is...
[July 13, 2006, 8:55]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback The correct reply is "I haven't". And one more, pedants who think that "data are" is correct. People who confuse Do and Have. There used to be a "Head and Shoulders" advert in which "I didn't know you had dandruff" is said to a girl - and she...
[June 8, 2006, 19:11]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Actually, both are correct. Both of these are correct as well. Yikes, Erin Kennedy. I think you're misinformed.monies' the pleural of money is moneys (when referring to forms of payment). But I will bet you spell it 'monies'
[June 8, 2006, 17:26]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback While things are used in a way that under archane terms would be incorrect because of their use in such a way as to mean something else, can be construed as correct.check out a dictionary.the first spelling is the correct spelling and the second...
[June 7, 2006, 20:01]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Isn't this decimal concept taught in grammar school? The correct way to print it is $.96 if one wants to use a decimal, or just write 96 cents, (no decimal point). THANK YOU! Would of" has been one of my pet peeves.
[June 7, 2006, 19:15]
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 It is important that something is done used instead of the correct How about "where it's at" instead of "where it is"? Also the confusion of subjunctive mode with present tense irritates. For example It is important that something be done
[June 7, 2006, 15:14]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Using the word gender where sex is correct. People do not have a gender(masculine, feminine, neuter) but a sex (male, female). Gender deals with grammer not physical characteristics. Also, if something costs a person no money they got it free or...
[June 7, 2006, 13:54]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback In conventional writing, 'i.e.is virtually synonymous with 'e.g.just as 'data is' and 'agenda is' have replaced the correct usage 'data are' and 'agenda are', repsectively. I agree wholeheartedly with all but item #4.
[June 7, 2006, 12:19]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I kind of question the wisdom of writing an article like this and not providing reasons for the correct answers. For example (e.g.their=possessive pronoun they're=contraction meaning "they are")
[June 7, 2006, 5:00]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback A common mistake I notice, mostly in speech, not text is the use of the pronoun "I" when "me" would be correct. Good article. 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 Note: Outlook picks up on each of these errors and suggests the correct replacement. -Whose / Who’s No: Who’s owl is biggest? Yes: Whose owl is biggest? Yes: Who’s coming to the owl sanctuary tomorrow?
[June 6, 2006, 16:59]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback If you think about what you are saying, the correct is obvious! "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...
[September 7, 2006, 15:49]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback They told me WHY, and that is, use the "me" or "I" in the sentence without the "Sue and" and which ever sounds correct, that is the one to use.e.g. Totally! I can get a bee in my bonnet seeing common mistakes like the ones listed.
[August 23, 2006, 23:48]
Education, Education, Education...
Talkback I remember getting a big (red) pen mark through essays on so many occassions for using correct spelling and grammar. Interesting that this should be predicated on the spelling and grammar check issue.
[April 17, 2007, 11:44]
I See This All The Time
Talkback However, the only correct usage is that something can "have an impact" on you. I agree with you. Someone in the discussion said they think impact is a verb, possibly because it has the word "verb" next to it in Merriam-Webster.
[June 19, 2008, 16:50]
"Data Is" Or "Data Are"
Talkback The correct form is, "the information we have IS good". For an IT orientated article I'm surprised this one got left out! Data" is a collective noun that should be used in the singular. We don't say "the weather are good today", or "the traffic are...
[April 15, 2007, 15:12]
