Yes, I know you are right. I am just trying to shine one tiny ray of light into the darkness. I tried for years to eliminate the irritating redundancy "Each and every ... ". I was told that it was said to add emphasis. Well, duh! All redundancies are to either add emphasis or because the speaker is insecure in his own knowledge or of the knowledge of the listener. It is still redundant, just like, "I raised it up." Even Rush still says, Each and every.
Embarrassingly, I have even made grammatical mistakes while correcting someone else's. I should know better but obviously, I don't.
LOL. Yes, I consider myself an expert on apostrophes, yet I made a mistake on a political ad I designed for my husband and some friends at a newspaper where I worked. I din’t notice it until it was already published, so focused was I on the picture that accompanied it. I felt like beating my head against a wall!
“Embarrassingly, I have even made grammatical mistakes while correcting someone else’s”