Grammar Pet Peeves

[Twertle]

I still don’t understand apostrophes (and I’m in my mid 30’s)

Someone please teach me….. ?

An apostrophe is when your connecting two words the apostrophe goes where the missing letter is e.g has not - hasn’t.

I’m not sure if this has been mentioned I haven’t read through the whole thread but I’ve seen this three times this morning ‘generally’ instead of ‘genuinely’ two different words with totally different meanings

 

[Instagram Sham]

An apostrophe is when your connecting two words the apostrophe goes where the missing letter is e.g has not - hasn’t.

I’m not sure if this has been mentioned I haven’t read through the whole thread but I’ve seen this three times this morning ‘generally’ instead of ‘genuinely’ two different words with totally different meanings

Genuinely, this is honestly brilliantly helpful! If only my KS2 teacher had explained it to me this way

What’s the possessive thing about? Also, say a name ends in an S, what happens then? James’s or James’ or neither? Why?

 

[TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo]

Genuinely, this is honestly brilliantly helpful! If only my KS2 teacher had explained it to me this way

What’s the possessive thing about? Also, say a name ends in an S, what happens then? James’s or James’ or neither? Why?

The possessive would be "It is Jane's book" and names that end in s just have an apostrophe so "It is James' book".

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

An apostrophe is when your connecting two words the apostrophe goes where the missing letter is e.g has not - hasn’t.

I’m not sure if this has been mentioned I haven’t read through the whole thread but I’ve seen this three times this morning ‘generally’ instead of ‘genuinely’ two different words with totally different meanings

*as an example of correct apostrophe usage, the "your" in the first sentence should be "you're" - a contraction of the words you and are.

 

[Milktray]

My mother-in-law writes sooh instead of so.

 

[witchofwestbyfleet]

Native English speakers writing "can not" instead of "cannot" or, for instance, "why she is saying that?" instead of "why is she saying that?" These are perfectly understandable in people whose first language isn't English, but if it is your first language, yeah, it grates

I had an ex who frequently wrote "&c." (archaic form of etc.) I guess it's not wrong per se but it did look weird, lol

 

[1001 others]

"Snickers" instead of "Sniggers" (when someone is chuckling)

"For all intensive purposes" instead of "For all intents and purposes"

I still don’t understand apostrophes (and I’m in my mid 30’s)

Someone please teach me….. ?

This is a very good guide:

Guides: Write Clearly: Punctuation: Using Apostrophes

Guides: Write Clearly: Punctuation: Using Apostrophes

guides.lib.uoguelph.ca

I completed a medical transcription course a few years ago and our tutor was American. Some things she got so, so wrong! For example: she said that if you were writing about "seashells," you must put an apostrophe between the last 'l' and the 's' (to make it "seashell's") so people knew what you meant. Ummm - NO! Doing so would mean that you were suggesting that the ' was replacing the word 'is' in this case. I argued with her until I was blue in the face, and she ended up giving me a poor grade on that particular paper! (I challenged it and won).

 

[emm]

I work in the education sector and today a colleague wrote to me using "your" instead of "you're"

 

[Django]

I work in the education sector and today a colleague wrote to me using "your" instead of "you're"

It's really sad when educators can't get it right, the children they are teaching don't stand a hope
This is from the website of a school that one of my daughters was looking at for her son.

 

[sheleg]

It's really sad when educators can't get it right, the children they are teaching don't stand a hope
This is from the website of a school that one of my daughters was looking at for her son.View attachment 1186837

Arghh! My eyes!

Or should I say, my eye’s!

How can a teacher make such a basic mistake?

 

[emm]

Arghh! My eyes!

Or should I say, my eye’s!

How can a teacher make such a basic mistake?

and to put it online, NOONE has realised the mistake

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

It's really sad when educators can't get it right, the children they are teaching don't stand a hope
This is from the website of a school that one of my daughters was looking at for her son.View attachment 1186837

i used to work in a bookshop, and i always remember when a different member of staff stuck a sign in the window which Read "now open on Sunday's" - i was horrified and had to remove it immediately!

also, when i was in primary school, our class teacher taught all the children that the word "friend" is spelled "freind". like, if we spelt it correctly, she'd actively mark it wrong and alter to the wrong spelling! it wasn't until the parents noticed that all the kids in our class were having their homework corrected and all misspelling the word that they realised what was happening, and awkwardly had to highlight her mistake!

 

[1001 others]

"Low and behold" instead of "Lo and behold"
"The curtains compliment the flooring" instead of "The curtains complEment the flooring"
"Per say" instead of "Per se"
"Low and behold" instead of "Lo and behold"

... I could go on all day!

 

[Kim Mild]

"Low and behold" instead of "Lo and behold"
"The curtains compliment the flooring" instead of "The curtains complEment the flooring"
"Per say" instead of "Per se"
"Low and behold" instead of "Lo and behold"

... I could go on all day!

I've seen people write ' loan behold'

 

[Miscanthus]

I think I've found my tribe

 

[watermelon sugar]

"Low and behold" instead of "Lo and behold"
"The curtains compliment the flooring" instead of "The curtains complEment the flooring"
"Per say" instead of "Per se"
"Low and behold" instead of "Lo and behold"

... I could go on all day!

Were you meant to put low and behold twice

 

[hol20x]

Someone on my facebook calls her child a torcher but she means torture.

My biggest hate is people who say genuinely when they mean generally.

 

[Sickofthissh1t]

People who use "early doors" instead of "early days"!!

 

[sheleg]

People who use "early doors" instead of "early days"!!

They’re different phrases though. Early doors refers to an establishment opening early. Early days means the start of something.

 

[HoGi]

People who use "early doors" instead of "early days"!!

They’re different phrases though. Early doors refers to an establishment opening early. Early days means the start of something.

I use early doors all the time. Mainly to refer to leaving work early!

They are different phrases with different meanings.