. mixing up your/you're, there/their/they're, and ending a sentence with a preposition.
— Dave N (@RunnerDave20194)
It's and its. One is a contraction, the other is a possessive. Happy Grammar Day from a Middle School Language Arts teacher.
— Julie Yanchulis (@DCSportsMom)
when people say they will "try and" do something. Should be try TO!
— Dana Tofig (@MCPSPIO)
Person's who make thing's plural by adding apostrophe's. And of course possessive's to. Totally anger's me. Learn the rule's, folk's.
— Doug Kern (@dakern74)
Who/whom and subject/verb disagreement. "Data" and "media" are PLURALS, people! :-)
— Deb Stahl (@CrnchyMama)
"Lose" & "Loose"
— 9_Passion (@Sov_Passion)
When people on Facebook use .... instead of commas, semicolons, or periods between sentences when they write long posts.
— kerrin (@kerrinsuzanne)
When people say "Him and me" went out. It should be "he and I".
— Mary Ellen (@m_icaza)
many are orthographic errors. I despise the misuse of "then" and "than"
— Petworthian (@Petworthnewvie)
How about him and me and her and I ugh.
— Andrea Warwick (@andiw516)
Use FEWER with items that can be counted; use LESS with a quantity of a substance.
— Heather Hurley (@medevam)
Using "lay" instead of "lie" and "went" instead of "gone."
— Sash (@michael0501)
when apostrophe "s" (or 's) is used as pluralization for a word or acronym
— Neal G. (@PalmBay925)
It drives me crazy when people say "physical" when they mean "fiscal"
using ARE for OUR
— HelenPriceMontgomery (@hporiginal)
oh! And "should/would/must of" instead of "should/would/must have"
— Petworthian (@Petworthnewvie)
Hate when people confuse there, their and they're. I mean, come on, there only 3 options! Their needs to be more focus on grammar.
— Anneliese Delgado (@OnAirAnneliese)
I'm sure you will get "alot" of replies RT Wednesday is National Grammar Day! What are your top grammar pet peeves? Tell us with
— Rebecca Roth (@rebroth)
the obvious one to me is your-you're
— George Daffan (@GCD04)
People who say "send it to John Doe and I" or otherwise misuse "I" because they think it sounds smarter.
— Satirical Alexandria (@SatirclAlx)
Hi . Knock knock. Who's there? To. To who? To WHOM! Happy !
— Stacey Viera (@staceyviera)
Typo issues: form & from; weather & whether... Grammar issues: your & you're; their & there; to & too; and when to use "," and ";"
— wendy (@wowindc)
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