What are your grammar pet peeves?

Question

What grammatical errors just annoy you?

Answer 1

Your and You're
There, They're and their

Answer 2

Apostrophes in the wrong places. For example, things that end in an S that aren't possessive. People often think that apostrophes are required.

"Moms love their kids", not "Mom's love their kids."
This is just one of many pet peeves, and the pronouns mentioned by person #1 are another. It's best not to get me started :(

Some words that use apostrophes are contractions. If you want to use the word but don't know if it requires an apostrophe, say the sentence without the contraction. For example, if you want to write "It's really good" but don't know if it gets an apostrophe or not, say the sentence w/o the contraction..."It is really good." If you can do that, you will know that the word requires an apostrophe if written in the short form (it's.)

Answer 3

That stupid apostrophe and when is it used: it's its James'.
I get it right almost always, but SOMEtimes I just have to look at the word with a blank mind.
But if someone ELSE makes a mistake, I'm on it.
And the " I before E except after C", I have to recite that darn rule in my mind before I can do it. Like mentally repeating my entire Social Security # just to state the last 4 digits...jeez.

Answer 4

1. "More prettier/More better", etc. If the word 'more' is there, there's no need to modify the adjective.

2. When people don't know the difference between "you're" and "your". Here's a hint: "YOUR STUPID" is NOT correct.

3. This is for online: When people say things like, "Im inteligent" or "Im smrat". If you were REALLY intelligent, you'd know how to spell the word.

4. "Should've went/came/ran"etc. The correct way to say this is, "Should've have gone, should've come, and should've run"

5. The word "conversate".

6. When someone is called a "chronological liar". The word is "pathological".

7. LOL or any variation of it.

8. When people say 'sangwich' instead of 'sandwich'.

9. "I did good in English class" Did you REALLY?

10. When people insert the word "Which" anywhere they choose to. Example: "My son was late for his doctor's appointment which I don't know why he didn't call me and ask me when it was." You can't throw it in just anywhere.

Answer 5

When people misuse the word "I."

Example: "What are you doing in the kitchen?" "I'm making breakfast for Holly and I." It should be "me," not "I."

It drives me batty when people put too many periods in an ellipsis. It's suppose to have THREE periods--not 6!

Misuse of apostrophes bothers me too. For some reason, people seem to use them in any word that ends in "s." Apostrophes are used to replace a missing letter (contractions) or to show possession. THAT'S IT!!

I also abhor double negatives and ebonics.

Answer 6

Lack of punctuation and improper spelling. That about covers 90% of grammar, right? Also, run-on sentences. I'm not perfect myself, but if it's written like a preschooler composed it and the person is obviously not 3...I do tend to get a twitch. :)

Answer 7

Living in the South, you hear a lot of grammar mistakes.

However, these two really annoy me:

1.) I seen....
2.) I done...

Answer 8

1: Using incorrect versions of:
-Your/You're
-Their/They're/There
-Two/Too/To
-Than/Then
-Accept/Except

2: Using "like" as a filler. ("I was like, walking down the street and I like, saw a car, and it was like, red." See how annoying that is?)

3: Ending questions with a period. Trust me, I see this a lot.

4: Changing tense erratically in the middle of a sentence or paragraph.

5: Use of the word "irregardless".

6: Incorrect use of semicolons.

Answer 9

No one has mentioned this one and it drives me crazy---

Me and my sister are going shopping.
Me and Jerry went to the show.

You never put yourself first! Should be--

My sister and I....
Jerry and I.....

When in doubt whether to use I or me, leave the other person out and just talk about yourself. You wouldn't say

Me are going shopping.
Me are going to the show.

So many people use bad grammer these days that I sometimes wonder if they ever went to school!

Answer 10

Irregardless

Answer 11

For me it's mainly people who can't string together an articulate sentence.

One thing that does bother me. I manager a movie theatre and a drive-in theatre. Most of my employees refer to the drive-in as "the drive-ins". This drives me up the wall. It's only one theatre with one screen.

And texting lingo drives me crazy. Especially now that it's starting to become part of the spoken vocabulary of some teenagers.