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10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback In the following, there should be a period after 'shortly', the word 'on' should be 'about', and the word retain should be pluralized. Your comment will be posted shortly Come back soon to see what ZDNet UK users have to say on this topic.
[June 9, 2006, 18:43]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Sue and I will review the data and make a recommendation.oh.and the use of an apostrophe S! 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.
[August 23, 2006, 23:48]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback So please, get of the grammar horse and talk sense. Lots of people are not even native English speakers, who give up their own language to make others understand what they're saying. This is nuts (nut'z).
[June 7, 2006, 14:54]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I cringe whenever supposedly learned people use "disconnect" as a noun.
[August 19, 2006, 9:48]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback It is interesting, but not unexpected, that the people who keep posting questions like 'Why is it WRONG? to be stupid, also seem unable to read the answers already given.
[August 8, 2006, 17:44]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback If a person's ideas are bad, however, I make fun of their grammer (e.g.then I make fun have they're grammer). If a person's content is good I overlook grammer mistakes. I read for ideas after all.
[August 7, 2006, 21:03]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I can make up bad sentences and then put them though a grammar checker. Why not explain why they are WRONG.
[August 4, 2006, 20:01]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Though "impact" should have minimal uses as a verb, it does have uses as a verb!
[July 27, 2006, 18:24]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Nina - you would only say "I brought a friend to the party" if you were actually AT the party. In the example you used, you would say "I took a friend to the party. I know it's not on point with brought vs.bought, but it's part of the bring/take...
[July 26, 2006, 20:19]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Why care? If for no other reason, you should care because a lot of people care. In other words, you will encounter people who form judgements and opinions of you based on your use of language. These people may decide whether you are employed, or...
[July 26, 2006, 20:13]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback Ironic that you make such a blatant grammar error. You wrote: These days, we tend to communicate via the keyboard as much as we do verbally. The word verbal does NOT mean spoken out loud. It means to use words, written words are verbal.
[June 15, 2006, 23:41]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback You should add the incorrect use of "As per". It makes no grammatical sense and is used all the time.
[June 14, 2006, 20:22]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback How about 'verbal' rather than 'oral' - this is now commonly used in Personnel management when talking ( sorry about the pun) about spoken warnings as opposed to written ones . I would love to know what the a non-verbal warning was - A fire alarm?
[June 13, 2006, 13:55]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback (Note: Outlook picks up on each of these errors and suggests the correct replacement. With the excepting of the example highlighted. HOW CARELESS OF YOU ! With the excepting of the example highlighted.is not a sentence.
[June 10, 2006, 9:54]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback 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 a girl - and she replies "I don't". Aaaargh! You don't "do" dandruff, you HAVE it.
[June 9, 2006, 21:39]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I'm going to bring it where I'm going at. That's what a kid I used to know said and he didn't know the difference, but then his dad chewed his sandwiches with his mouth open because, he said, the kid's mother wasn't around.
[June 9, 2006, 19:48]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback It is rebellion that causes each generation to depart from the established language, incited by the Devil, for the purpose of causing the Bible to become difficult or impossible to understand (at least for the common folks).
[June 9, 2006, 19:45]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback 'You've got mail' should be 'You have mail'.
[June 9, 2006, 19:30]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I hate that leet speak crap.lol
[June 9, 2006, 18:55]
10 Flagrant Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid
Talkback I like you Brits humor. Funny reading your remarks.
[June 9, 2006, 18:53]
