Grammar Pet Peeves

[Melian]

People not knowing when to use “its“ instead of “it’s”.

stupid question alert - when exactly would you use either of them? I understand generally, that the apostrophe means it belongs to someone or when you miss out a letter, such as won't.

 

[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

 

[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.

 

[TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo]

Are there circumstances where three would be more appropriate than five and vice versa?

I don't think so but now you've asked I'm going to have to do some research because I'd quite like to know too. I know three is far more common these days as the official number. It might be quite interesting to find out when one became more popular than the other as well.

 

[Pawpaw365]

People saying fiancé when they mean fiancée and vice versa

 

[Happy Lady]

I hate to see "reoccurrence". There is no such word and "recurrence" should be used.

 

[Pink blancmange]

When I get random adds on Snapchat from quick add and every single one of them says "show me u." I can't even explain how much that irritates me!! Why can't they say can you show me a picture? Can I see what you look like? Why does every single male say it?!?!?!

 

[Scorpihoe]

there are SO many phrases where people do this, there is a true crime podcast I listen to by a couple of american women and they make mistakes like this ALL the time. Unless you are a nonnative speaker mistakes like this are ridiculous

Is it the crime junkie podcast by any chance?

 

[TapToBoreMeRigid]

Christmas at the Hobson's

Christmas at the Hobson is what?

 

[emm]

i'm genuinely so embarrassed! mistakes like that usually stand out at me and i notice them immediately - i definitely would have if it had been a comment written by someone else - but i was far more focused on capitalising the letters and didn't notice. of all the places to make a grammatical error!


i can't remember the context, but i have actually seen someone use "two" instead of "too"...!

god I despair!

 

[emm]

Is it the crime junkie podcast by any chance?

yes! how on earth could you guess? i listened to it today and she made a mistake with a very basic verb as well I don't know why I put myself through it sometimes

 

[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?

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

when people muddle up lend and borrow. like "can i get a lend of your pen?" instead of "could i borrow your pen?"

 

[Boobies]

Isn't that a regional thing though? Like you know how sometimes people with a strong Scottish accent will type exactly as they talk?

You'd think so but I've only ever seen it from scousers (I'm one too). Seems to be common in the youngsters and the wannabes.

 

[Django]

“As per” … “as” and “per” mean the same thing, so “as per” is redundant. It drives me up the wall that everyone at work uses “as per”.

That's an absolutely fine use of words

Definition of AS PER

in accordance with : according to… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

I'm not sure what your word - exteroize - means though?

 

[Fledgling Psycho]

that is UNASSEPTABLE!

Oh yes I forgot the UN ...doh. It was very funny that kid, hands on hips ..."It. Is. U-N-ACCEPT-ABLE not unasseptable!"

 

[Fledgling Psycho]

Quite funny when someone on a dating app tells you they want to duck you because predictive text has changed the word. Lol

 

[Fledgling Psycho]

A couple of words I remember that I don't feel are words or if they are, are too clunky.
One is "anxiousness" ... Surely it is just "I was full of anxiety". Also "comfortability" ... Isn't comfort or comfortable sufficient? Eg. "I think the settee was very comfortable" and not "The settee had comfortability". Comfortability is coming up on predictive text though.

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

"I seen" and "on accident" send me into a rage.

same with "i done"!

 

[Mamacita]

We used to be corrected at school if we used the term “due to” rather than “owing to”. Our English teacher used to say that the only things that are due are money and the bus.

Surely that's wrong