[Artela] Pedantry Time
Artela
I see a lot of articles these days where basic grammar and spell checking has not been done. The spell checking I can’t do much about, however the common grammar mistakes can be corrected easily if people think about the context of the word they are using and change accordingly.
Common basic grammar problems
There / Their / They’re
There – this is the one to use if you mean something is somewhere, not here but there
Their – this is the one to use if you mean “belonging to someone”, it is their word
They’re – this is a contraction of “they are” and should only be used where “they are” would make sense
Your / You’re
Your – use this one for the context of “it belongs to you”
You’re – this is a contraction of “you are” and should only be used where “you are” would make sense
Its / It’s
Its – belonging to it
It’s – contraction of “it is”
You should be getting the hang of it by this point…
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P.S. CAKE!!!!
It's nice to know our MoD is defending the land in every way.
The cake is a lie.
Love it! The grammar problem that really irritates is the use of "of" rather than "have", as in "I would of...", rather than "I would have...". It makes me want to break things.
Mr. Spigot wrote: The grammar problem that really irritates is the use of "of" rather than "have", as in "I would of...", rather than "I would have...". It makes me want to break things.
@Mr. Spigot: It's because people don't consider the root of the grammar. The "would of" thing has come from "would've" being then wrongly backformed to "would of" based on its sound instead of the root "would have" based on its grammar
A tad pedantic but "Cake" isn't a proper noun and accordingly ought to be written in the lower case. Sorry Artela.
Voted for great justice.
And Jhorlin, that was entirely appropriate. There is no use complaining about other people if we are not getting it right ourselves
ive totals agrreed wiv hard logic,
I hates grammatical incorrectednesses!!!!
Yes, but... Cake! *lol*
(Anyway, there is a law of pedantry that states that when correcting others you will always make a mistake yourself.)
scholl i in gramrar hard to lern am i god