Ok. Your in Hell. What grammatical errors do you see frequently repeated?
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:25 AM
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Ok. Your in Hell. What grammatical errors do you see frequently repeated?
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:27 AM
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1. "your" instead of "you're" for you are
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:44 AM
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6. And we can't forget "there", "their", and "they're".
They're driving their car over there.
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:45 AM
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8. For all intensive purposes, it is the medium in the middle of the road.
Edited on Sun Jan-22-06 12:46 AM by nytemare
:) on edit: I didn't mean to respond to my own post.
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:48 AM
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10. no, the medium is running the sayance
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:49 AM
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11. That would be the median.
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:53 AM
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14. darn, gnu their was a spelchek for thees thing's
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Sun Jan-22-06 01:42 PM
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35. Spel chek dosent look for contexst.
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:27 AM
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:42 AM
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4. Irregardless, your a looser,
but thats definately a whole nother, separate thing, and I would say that your inference has really impacted me, "so to speak". x(
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:50 AM
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cu seem to of covered near to all of the bases in ur post, 'nuff said!
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Sun Jan-22-06 03:12 AM
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17. Yep, it couldn't be HELL if the freepers weren't there
to torture us. Little do they know... So, little do they know.
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:42 AM
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:45 AM
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7. 'lose' and 'loose' n/t
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:48 AM
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9. the apostrophe crime's. And the term "very unique".
"unique" is an absolute. Either something is unique, meaning that it is one of a kind, or it's not unique. There is no scale of uniqueness, motherfuckers.
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Sun Jan-22-06 10:18 AM
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28. We be speak'n Merkin here, very unique languages compared...
to whatevers them be speak'n in Canuckistans.
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Sun Jan-22-06 12:51 AM
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13. then/than usage errors
example: There are more apples then oranges.... ARRRGGHH :) No idea why this particular crime bothers me so much, but it does.
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Sun Jan-22-06 02:54 AM
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15. the repeated and criminal neglect of proper capitalization.
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Sun Jan-22-06 02:59 AM
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16. Lots of apostrophe-s in plurals
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Sun Jan-22-06 06:04 AM
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22. I see that on these forums all the time. It drives me crazy.
I just wonder how some people passed English and grammar in school.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:21 AM
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44. Its the influance of the internet's. nt
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Sun Jan-22-06 09:59 AM
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24. That drives me nuts, as well! And It's instead of its!
It's is a contraction for it is! :grr: And the plural errors often show up on menus and in newspaper ads. ex: hero's (meaning submarine sandwiches):eyes:
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Sun Jan-22-06 10:21 AM
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30. Here's a's cool's site's I's checked's out's a's while's ago's:
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Sun Jan-22-06 10:40 AM
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31. ROFL!!! What great links! Thanks, pinniped! :D
The first one should be required reading for anyone who ever uses the written word! And the second one has examples of exactly what sends me over the edge! It's just not that hard...:eyes: Rhiannon:hi::yourock:
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Sun Jan-22-06 11:00 AM
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There's an funny doggy-doo-doo sign at the park up the block from my house.
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Sun Jan-22-06 11:07 AM
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Doggy-doo-doo? What does it say?:shrug: The sign that sticks in my mind was at the amusement park where I worked for a summer job. The employees' entrance had a notice stating that "all brakes should be taken behind the park restaurant." I imagine I would have caught hell if I had removed them from the park train that I drove...:eyes::rofl: Rhi:hi:
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Sun Jan-22-06 11:53 PM
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37. It was something about picking up DOGS FECES.
The park didn't bother to order the stencil set with the apostrophe character.
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Sun Jan-22-06 03:18 AM
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18. to, two and too being confused
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Sun Jan-22-06 03:18 AM
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19. a lot of exclamation points thru the chest of grammar police :D
Edited on Sun Jan-22-06 03:19 AM by DanCa
The devil is a freeper after all.
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Sun Jan-22-06 03:46 AM
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20. It's hard to say. Could it be the possesive of its=it's?
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Sun Jan-22-06 03:50 AM
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21. Oh, that's always a terrible one; so many people screw that up
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Sun Jan-22-06 10:01 AM
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25. It's is a contraction for "it is." Drives me nuts, as well...
Its is the possessive.:eyes:
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Sun Jan-22-06 09:54 AM
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23. Loose instead of lose
their instead of they're Punctuation outside quotes (only question marks go there)
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Sun Jan-22-06 10:12 AM
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26. Ok. Your in Hell. What grammatical error's do you see frequently repeated?
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Sun Jan-22-06 10:16 AM
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urine hell, but it was just a stone.
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Sun Jan-22-06 10:20 AM
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29. Hey! Save those up...
They're worth a fortune! Just ask Bill Shatner!
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Mon Jan-23-06 11:47 PM
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Sun Jan-22-06 10:59 AM
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Sun Jan-22-06 01:50 PM
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...you start a sentence with a preposition.
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Sun Jan-22-06 11:54 PM
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38. In hell people use apostrophes for plurals instead of posessives.
I don't even want to know what they do to possessive plurals.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:02 AM
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40. "shudders" v. "shutters"
they're/their/there ending sentences with prepositions proper use of apostrophes They don't really irk me, but they definitely cause me to stop a second and blink.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:05 AM
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41. OK this is spelling but JudgEment drives me nuts, n/t
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:08 AM
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"judgement" is an alternate spelling.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:15 AM
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43. As a lawyer, it still bugs me
a legal judgment has only one e.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:25 AM
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46. It drives me nuts, too.
Especially here, the churches put on JudgEment House, which is like those Texas Hell Houses. On all of their advertisements, they misspell judgment. It drives me BATTY.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:27 AM
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Edited on Tue Jan-24-06 12:27 AM by Maddy McCall
. Meant to respond to OP.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:25 AM
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45. I don't see grammatical errors, but I do see people who are constantly
correcting them....then it must be hell
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:29 AM
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48. This one sends me into spasms: Calvary for Cavalry.
And, on map tests, it kills me when students write Whales instead of Wales. Those are my two pet peeves.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:34 AM
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49. I think you covered all the lose ands. Its hard to be prefect.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:37 AM
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50. Comprise for compose. And all these goddamn name-games (Repuke, Repuglican
LimpBalls, all that stupid nonsense.)
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:40 AM
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51. And the one I absolutely despise:
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:46 AM
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insulting our own guy, even if that's not the intention.
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Tue Jan-24-06 12:41 AM
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52. Read most of my posts.
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