What are some grammatical errors that annoy you?

Answer 1

idk u tink ter e? <--------- that stuff annoys me.

Answer 2

I'm so glad you asked.
your; when you are, or the contraction you're is meant.
there; when the possessive pronoun their is meant.
The y/a oft asked: What do I do? Instead of the correct: What should I do?
Those three annoy me the most, although there are just dozens and dozens of them posted every day. It is amazing how poorly most people spell these days.

I also abhor the use of IN when AND is meant. My students do this much of the time. It seems impossible to correct them: Pictures, physical demonstrations, nothing seems to correct this error! It's the way they hear it spoken. "My brother in me went to the store." Arrrrrrrrrgh!

Answer 3

Your instead of you're, or were instead of where. It messes with my mind and makes the sentance harder to read, but other than that I'm not a real phsycho about spelling and grammar. Actually it kind of annoys me when people jump down your throat because you missed one letter in a word or something.(Hey! Skinhead is really SHUTUP from last night. That person gets on my nerves. Go AWAY!)

Answer 4

some are grammatical, some are spelling, some are redundant

here's a few things that annoy me

people who don't know the difference between

your and you're
its and it's

people who say "irregardless"

people who say "I could care less" when they mean they COULDN'T care less

people who say ONE OF THE ONLY which is contradictory - they should say ONE OF THE FEW

redundant things like

ATM Machine (Automated Teller Machine Machine?)

or people who say "6 a.m. in the morning" since it's a.m. I have to assume it's morning otherwise it would be 6 p.m. which would be evening.

Answer 5

The ones on the English exam. I would have to read all the choices and choice an correct one. It's not only annoying but it gets hard for a while

Answer 6

People, particularly professional people like radio personalities, who don't properly conjugate the verb to be. When I here things likes "There's (there is) several ways that President Bush makes himself look foolish.", instead of "There're (there are) several ways that President Bush makes himself look foolish.", it really sets my teeth on edge. You would think people could use the plural form of the verb properly.

I'm also thinking of having buttons made that say "I've discovered adverbs." and handing them out to people who actually use adverbs. I think some people are allergic to the letters "ly".

Answer 7

This boy i've met doesn't know how to spell "wow" so he spells "while" instead of "wow" and he get his to and too's mixed up Like i'm going "to" the mall (correct way).. But he say like i'm going "too" the mall and that's "to" much... it annoys the living crap out of me...The funny thing is he think he is better in English than me.

Answer 8

The minute I see "me and my friend" I'm off to the next question. How many people would say "Me went to the mall?" so just drop the friend, people, and straighten up the sentence. Jeez!

Answer 9

There
Their
They're

people usually get them mixed up, but I wouldn't say that it annoys me. I just notice them.

Answer 10

In Trinidad people have a tendency to say "I is", "Me ent no", "Reverse Back", "I hadid......", when asking an obvious question they say for example " is gone he gone?" and the list goes on. As a teacher I tend to correct my kids but it doesnt annoy me. It's our creole, our dialect.

Answer 11

when ppl say "i ain't got that!" its so annoying! it just annoys me when ppl make any grammatical errors period!!