Please play. This is not a slam dunk. I have so many grammatical errors to complain about in this article. I know many people don't realize them. I'm not talking typos. I make typos because I can't see. I may put two l's instead of one. My eyes cannot tell they are there. On a site like this with no spell check, it is easy to do. So let's just use errors that are commonly seen and maybe in so doing, some people will say, "I didn't know that."
I'll start with my favorite.
ALOT.
There is no such word. It is A LOT. There is a word allot with two l's. I'm done for now. Your turn.
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I don't see much formal writing on gather.
Just another viewpoint on that word.
This is from its website:
alright
One entry found for alright.
Main Entry: al·right
Pronunciation: (")ol-'rIt, 'ol-"
Function: adverb or adjective
: ALL RIGHT
usage The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing .
Then, the following is from Wikipedia:
Alright is an alternative spelling of "all right". It is usually used to indicate that something is good but not great (so-so): "The play was alright." It is also used as an expression of great pleasure: "We won the championship! Alright!"
Used as a definite distinction from "all right" as in "everything" (all) "correct" (right). To represent "kind of" or "sort of."
The word is UNTIL advertising wonks. The word 'til' references a sesame plant in Hindu. And the word 'till' means 'to turn the soil.'
How do you figure out which one to use?
Poetic license is another issue entirely; however, I would hardly consider advertising slogans to be poetic. I object to the use of slang in public documents including advertising. It sets a poor precedent for the impressionable, including children.
"Someone gave Jane and I an orange"
"Jane and me got an orange" or worse yet "Me and Jane got an orange"
Shudder!!!
"I axed him for a drink," means that you hit with him with an ax in order to get a drink. Why would you do that? I would think that the drink would now be spilled onto the ground, along with liquids of other sorts. (Yuck!)
How about the punctuation? For instance putting the end mark outside a quotation mark"!
It is "quotation mark!"
The British put the end mark outside the quotation marks. Too picky?
It don't do me no nevermind.
: )
I just like to read and write. If I can figure out what someone is trying to say than that is even more of a benefit for the both of us. Thanks for reading what I write!
d;-)
Is grammar even taught these days? I don't recall grammar lessons when I was at school back in the 1970s, when our (Enzed) English curriculum was designed - by hippies, I think - to promote free thought and expression rather than rote learning, and the little I do know I picked up as I went along. Of course, those teaching today enjoyed the same education I did, so I'm not hopeful.
"Chewsing" is actually from waaaay before even my old professors. Like in 1776, it was pretty common alternate spelling for choosing. Things change, and people who like what they used to know fuss when they fail to change with it.
I learned that the word "therefore" must always be preceded by a semi-colon and followed by a comma. Good luck enforcing that rule!
affect means the way you do something affects it in some way, such as you have a good affect on a person's well being.
I also don't like when people use there instead of thier, of they're correctly, or your instead or you're. I think people type so fast they don't think while doing it. If you have a good word processor and set it grammar and spell check at the same time, it will usually do that for you. Unfortunately mine does not have the grammar check just the spell one, but if the word is a word such as effect or affect it will not use it correctly for you. So does that help,,,, and I hope I am right here, think so.
What I do know about it, I've picked up hit or miss. Am always willing to learn. So that's a good thing.
Like Faith... stated above, I pretty much avoid affect and effect, no way can I ever figure out which it's supposed to be when I need one or the other.
"All right" threw me for a loop the other day too, until finally I just avoided it altogether.
The quotation mark thing just never looks right. I usually put the punctuation inside, but was told in 'college writing' that its supposed to go outside. So now I'm just confused. I don't like it outside and usually sneak it inside, whether that's right or not.
"Sum daze eye jest don no how to right!"! And my spel cheker ain't workin sew well.
Her and her mom are going to the store. Him and his dad are friends. Yikes!
Alot always bothers me when I see it written.
At-lan-ta Braves, yes, but At-lanna works fine for most other phrases :-)
I hate the word "prolly". I never pronounced "probably" as such. To me, pronouncing or writing "prolly" is lazy or ignorant. Is it slang? I'm not sure.
I mighta, coulda
I did it by accident.
And just for Sonja: Between you and I, I hate using pronouns in the wrong case, don't you?
Jeejet.
See who gets it. I'll check back later.
I don't get it.
I guess I'm ignorant.
Second man: No, jew?
Translation:
First man: Did you eat?
Second man: No, did you?
Can you imagine what our everyday spoken language must sound like to someone who is studying English?!??! Ouch!