FR Grammar Pet Peeves (Shameless Vanity)

My Fertile Mind | 12/30/08 | Your Uncle Miltie

[Uncle Miltie]

I apologize for the shameless vanity, but I'm going to propose a thread for today: Your pet peeves about others' grammar on FR.

I'm not innocent. But, can we please use apostrophes for possessives and not use apostrophes for plurals?

Please chime in with your pet peeves.

Possessive Example:

Correct: My dog's bone is in the yard.

Incorrect: My dogs bone is in the yard.

Plural Example:

Correct: My dogs are in the yard.

Incorrect: My dog's are in the yard.

Admin Mod: Please move this thread as appropriate.

[SpinnerWebb]

mabey...

;0)

[Cyber Ninja]

oop’s: differtense

[Turret Gunner A20]

Must be a Harvard graduate — cany evin spell jooze.

[Turret Gunner A20]

"aesthetically compromised "

WOW!!!! I like that. But, it's a bit mild when referring to the Helen Thomas pic, don't you thing??? I'd call it a masterpiece of understatement.

[TChris]

then/than

their/there/they're

your/you're

Your examples of posessive/plural mishaps

to/too/two

The imaginary word "alot" (usually should be "a lot")

accept/except

There are many more...

[Cyber Ninja]

Butt, moistly I hate is when people are so oftenly Miss Spelling Tory.

[BradyLS]

Looks like his buddy is trying to repair their image.

Too late.

[Revolting cat!]

Ice cream when ever I here John Lennon's "And no religion, too!"

Its "No religion NEITHER!", dammit!

[MosesKnows]

Please chime in with your pet peeves.

I have several.

1 - Applying the word "gender" when referring to the sex of humans. Gender applies to grammar, not human sex. There are sex related issues, not gender related issue. I expect to one day hear "was the gender good for you”.

2 - I got married. No, you married.

3 - The preacher married us. No, the preacher didn’t marry you; he performed your marriage ceremony.

4 - This not a grammar issue but the use of the word "whatever" and the expression, "you know" are annoying.

[Revolting cat!]

Is "is you is or is you ain't" (Luis Jordan & Delbert McClinton) correct?

[Revolting cat!]

Someone left the cake out in the rain"

Why "the cake"? And why "Someone" and not "Somebody"?

I'll never have the recipe again.

[ladyjane]

Our own President-elect said: “President Bush has invited Michelle and I to the White House.” Harvard must be proud.

[Try_Freedom]

"Because the contraction sounds like "of" when spoken, I think people have forgotten that the contraction stands for "have"."

That was the point of my original post. I didn't understand the response to my post. Was the poster implying that the contractions for "would have" and "could have" were improper?

[TChris]

Harvard must be proud.

It is, with or without Mr. Obama. :-)

Of course, if you are to go by the available records, you'd never know he went to Harvard.

[NEMDF]

Here is one: don’t start sentences with “but”.

[Joan Kerrey]

But, can we please use apostrophes for possessives and not use apostrophes for plurals?
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You’re point’s are we’ll taken. Will be more careful with future post’s.

[TChris]

Oh, and another current pet peeve is the abuse of quotation marks for emphasis.

Buy "now"! Sale ends "today"! We will "not" be undersold!

[BuffaloJack]

> “Would of” or “Could of” instead of the contractions “Would’ve” or “Could’ve.”

Don’t you mean “would have” or “could have”?

[ErnBatavia]

[waverna]

Here’s mine. You don’t ‘loan’ someone money, you ‘lend’ it. You make a loan. Lend = verb, loan = noun.
Everyone gets that wrong.