Do you judge people when they use poor grammar?

Question

god knows i do.
:P

Answer 1

oh my!!! yes! i have grown up with my dad! he is an author, and i am taking after him, we both correct ramdom people when we hear it!!! it bugs me so freaking bad!!!

Answer 2

Yes, I am critical of poor grammar. For instance, I am critical of the fact that you used improper grammar in your statement.

You are not capitalizing appropriately. The first error is with capitalization of the word God. There are two reasons why it should be capitalized in this sentence. The first reason is because God is the first word in your sentence. The first letter of the first word of a sentence should always be capitalized. Another reason God should be capitalized is because you are using the word as a proper name, not as a general deity (ex: the god, or a god). There is a second capitalization error with your use of a lowercase i. The letter i should always be capitalized when it is being used as a first-person pronoun.

In addition to the capitalization error, this is not a properly constructed sentence. There are two subjects present, God and I. You also have two verbs in your phrase, knows and do. Without creating a proper connection between these, your sentence is just a phrase or fragment. There are two ways to fix your sentence structure. You can create a demonstrative clause from the "...I do" part of your sentence by prefacing it with the word that. This way, the clause of "that I do" demonstrates what it is that God knows. Another alternative is to create a subordinate clause in the sentence. To do this, you would simply have to add what it is that you do. For example: "God knows I do judge people when they use poor grammar."

Thank you very much for bringing up this topic! I am preparing to become a high school English teacher, and explaining the problem with your sentence was a welcomed challenge.

P.S. I tried indenting the first line in each of my paragraphs, but I believe Yahoo! Answers does not allow that formatting to follow through to the question and answers page. Instead, I have simply put a space between each paragraph to indicate structure. Thank you.

Answer 3

As a linguist, I oppose prescribing (enforcing) a particular tension of language over human beings. Any variety of speech and writing may be completely valid in accordance to its very own policies (e.g. many semi-knowledgeable suburbanite individuals may be shocked to comprehend that Black Vernacular English or Ebonics actually has a set of very very strict policies that are slightly different from the standard American/British English... and local audio gadget of BVE frequently sense that the mainstream dialect is unnatural-sounding). audio gadget of previous English might actually be appalled through our loss of adherence to "their own" language's grammar. And if anybody replaced into so prepared on following the right grammar of their mom-tongues, then we could as nicely be speaking Proto-Indo-eu or some (hypothetical) Ur-language. Languages evolve, and that's a actuality of existence. as a effect linguists learn this evolution and "describe" it extremely than "prescribe" policies for the sustenance of a unmarried variety of language. yet I admit, even dialectual modifications can substitute into roadblocks in my awareness yet another speaker - at worst, that's little problematic... yet i'm actually no longer as irritable as a number of my poor fellow English audio gadget.

Answer 4

So...the "god knows i do" is a test, and only a test?

I am French and I know many languages but still, it pisses me off when some French people forget to put the "s" at the end of the third person! (like...he walk everyday to school).

I, myself, make many mistakes but you can see I'm trying not to (I know "to" should not end a sentence).
I will say "you did good" instead of "you did well" and my kid, who did good, will correct me but still I'll be making the same mistake again next he does good, because, in my book...good is better than well.

Answer 5

Not on here as long as the question or answer is easy to understand despite bad grammar.
By the way capital G for God and capital I for I

Answer 6

Yes I do. I hate hearing people use double negatives more than anything in the world. (confession: I say "ya'll" in alomost every sentence and I hate myself for it. I'm an Oklahoman, I tell myself I can stop anytime I want to, but the truth is I cannot.)

Answer 7

Making mistakes occasionally is fine because we're not perfect and might trip with our words and have to correct ourselves. But constant bad grammar use, makes me quesion someone's education, knowledge and language familarity - but not their character and such.

Answer 8

Yes, the grammar shouldn't be hard to learn people.
Move along people, nothing to see here-Officer Barbrady

Answer 9

Poor grammar is my biggest pet peeve. It makes the person look uneducated.

Answer 10

Yes, I'm an English teacher in a rural area. I hear other teachers in other subject areas sometimes use horrible grammar and it really bothers me.

Answer 11

It really depends on how bad it is. A few misspelled words. No big deal - after all this is for fun. However, if it is so bad that it is difficult to figure out what they are saying, I must admit I think "WOW...Did this person go to school"?