I'm no expert. I haven't taken a class on it since the 9th grade. (You'd think it'd be a requisite for folks studying writing in college, but no.) Still, there are some grammar blunders that drive me nutty. (Not literally.)
their/they're/there
literally
apostrophes
Those are at the top of my list. (Literally.)
I recently discovered grammar comics at The Oatmeal and had to share. The creator explains grammar rules, among other subjects, in comic form. Two of my grammar peeves (you know, instead of pet peeves) have already been covered.
They're informative and clever. Literally check them out here.
Do you have any grammar peeves? What about when people misuse saw/seen? Ugh—that drives me nuts too. (Again, not literally.)
7 comments:
My cousin (in college) doesn't know the difference between you're and your. It's so annoying when I see it on her facebook page. I want to scream "You're too dumb for college!" Ridiculous.
Me, I go comma crazy, I'm sure you noticed, but hey, I know the difference between you're and your! :-)
Oh yeah, your/you're is about as annoying as their/there/they're. My #1 is "literally" though. People do NOT know the definition of that anymore. I hear it misused almost every day.
Commas don't bother me. I can go comma crazy too. Run-on sentences bug though.
Forget artist designer, I should appoint you blog editor. :-) Goodness knows I could use it!
That reminds me...I haven't done anything with your blog lately. Oopsie... I'll get to it one of these days. I at least want to make a header.
Btw, commas, run-ons, etc., don't bother me as much on a blog because I look at blogging kind of like talking. Most people don't really talk grammatically correct. They should still know the difference between their/there/they're and you're/your though. And what literally means. On blogs people take artistic license with punctation and that's fine IMO. I do it too.
They take artistic license with punctuation too. ;-)
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