Grammar pet peeves

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  • itsjustdawn
    itsjustdawn Posts: 1,073 Member
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    Supposably. It's not a word, people.
  • itsjustdawn
    itsjustdawn Posts: 1,073 Member
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    "should of" instead of "should have"

    I see it ALL the time, it bugs me soo much! I don't understand how or why people think that makes sense...

    THIS - with a passion. I HATE IT!
  • itsjustdawn
    itsjustdawn Posts: 1,073 Member
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    When people say "seen" when it should be "saw"

    Someone just posted on my FB about this lol
  • itsjustdawn
    itsjustdawn Posts: 1,073 Member
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    "could" + "have" DOES NOT = "could of" ...What the heck does "could of " mean?

    It's "could've, would've, should've"

    Not understanding why this is so hard. Do they not teach contractions in grade school English anymore?

    Unfortunately people are sounding it out and that's what it sounds like. Uneducated? In England it's worse - could uv. WTF. But I cringe every time :-(
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
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    people who have nothing better to do than moan :) GET A LIFE!!!

    Where is the grammar problem there?

    The first word of a sentence should be capitalized and there should be a period at the end of the sentence.

    Ok, so they're not grammar errors but they're still errors. :bigsmile:
  • pain_is_weakness
    pain_is_weakness Posts: 798 Member
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    when people axe me something instead of asking me something


    "lemme axe you somthin right quick" ****ing irritating!
  • vivie72
    vivie72 Posts: 127 Member
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    Witch and which

    Whether and weather

    It just drives me crazy!
  • leomom72
    leomom72 Posts: 1,797 Member
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    wud=would
    lyk=like
    dat=that
    etc...
  • SabrinaSt
    SabrinaSt Posts: 142 Member
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    whose - who's
    its- it's
    his-he's
    your-you're
    to-too
    lose-loose


    irregardless
    advices
    equipments
  • Miss_dannii
    Miss_dannii Posts: 1,351 Member
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    Definately
    THERE IS NO 'A' IN DEFINITELY!

    Summat/Sumat/Summit, and the worst I've seen, Sumert , as a substitute for 'something'. It's not hard to type something...
  • marinebiologist_girl
    marinebiologist_girl Posts: 300
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    The worst one for me is "I could care less". I don't know how much more to stress it, if you COULD care less then you obviously DO care, thus you're not saying what you mean when you say "I could care less".
  • Miss_dannii
    Miss_dannii Posts: 1,351 Member
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    The worst one for me is "I could care less". I don't know how much more to stress it, if you COULD care less then you obviously DO care, thus you're not saying what you mean when you say "I could care less".

    Ah this has always annoyed me. I have always said "I couldn't care less" (which makes total sense, right?) and people always correct me...
  • lauren3101
    lauren3101 Posts: 1,853 Member
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    Bought and brought.

    "I just brought a new car."

    Oh really? Where did you bring it from?


    I'm also noticing a lot of people saying 'pacifically' rather than 'specifically'.

    The Pacific is an ocean, you utter retard.
  • MouthyMatthewCHANGED
    MouthyMatthewCHANGED Posts: 85
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    This list could run and run!

    * Getting your and you're mixed up

    * Getting there, their and they're mixed up

    * Saying "I will try and..." when it should really be "I will try to..."

    * Saying "I wish I was" instead of "I wish I were"

    * People not understanding when to use "if I were" and "if I was" (if I was being rude last night, I apologise) (if I were being rude last night, believe me you'd know about it!).

    * Saying "I should of..." instead of "I should have"

    * Getting me, myself and I totally mixed up (our neighbours have invited my partner and me to a party) (my partner and I can't wait to attend next-door's party)

    * Confusing when to use if and when to use whether

    As I say, the list runs and runs. But another pet peeve of mine is the incessant overuse of the words "actually", "basically", "like", "obviously" and "y'know". So frequently every single one of those words can be dropped and the sentence would read or sound more fluent.

    Oh and also the overuse of saying "the ones". It's nearly always true that a better word to use is 'those'.

    Right, rant over!!
  • MouthyMatthewCHANGED
    MouthyMatthewCHANGED Posts: 85
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    Oh and to those of you who've mentioned the "could care less" against the "couldn't care less", I looked into that a while ago.

    I quite agree that the saying only makes sense if you say "I couldn't care less", and this was the original saying. But, apparently, it's something of an Americanism whereby "I could care less" was deemed a 'softer' or 'less offensive' thing to say, and as it's therefore being said in more and more films via Hollywood, the (incorrect) saying is spreading.

    But I wholly agree that to say "I could care less" implies that you must care to some degree if you're able to care less than you currently do now. Whereas "I couldn't care less" means that you're already at rock bottom and really couldn't give a **** ;-)
  • MouthyMatthewCHANGED
    MouthyMatthewCHANGED Posts: 85
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    Oh and as well as the affect/effect mix-ups, there's also the practice (noun) against practise (verb).

    "I went to tennis practice to practise my tennis"
  • SCOUSERWENCH
    SCOUSERWENCH Posts: 74 Member
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    Summink

    It's SOMETHING. if you wanted summink goto Staples!
  • MouthyMatthewCHANGED
    MouthyMatthewCHANGED Posts: 85
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    I knew there was another one...

    Mixing up discreet and discrete.
  • shortstuff189
    shortstuff189 Posts: 37
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    "He was stood there"

    "I was sat there"

    "They are equally as great" - EQUALLY AS DOES NOT EXIST!!!

    "I am going to try and go to the shop" - YOU DON'T TRY AND DO ANYTHING!! YOU TRY TO!!!

    And two,to and too.
    You're and your.
    I done it.
    I seen it.
    Where, were and wear.
    Massive big thing - tautology - waste of words. One does not need to use more than one describing word of the same definition!


    Wow, this was therapeutic. :D
  • beachlover317
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 Member
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    "prolly" instead of probably
    misuse of "weigh" and "weight"
    writing "whose" in place of "who's" Saw this on the forum 5 minutes ago

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