Grammatical Pet Peeves
Let me start by saying that I am by no means an expert, or perfect. I did not obtain my degree in English or communications, or grammar for that matter. I just happen to have a gift for writing and spelling, and when people abuse it, it really frustrates me!
Some examples of my current grammatical pet peeves:
- Abuse of you’re. Your = your. You’re = YOU ARE. I am also annoyed when people use “abbreviations” that they normally use while texting when writing comments in Facebook.
- Misspelling of words in the media, such as on major local news stations. I know they have to type things out fairly quickly, but with all the technology we have today, I believe a quick run through spellcheck would do wonders.
- When people say something such as, “It’s a lot of people going into the store”. It’s = it is, meaning singular. They should be saying, “There are a lot of people going into the store”.
- Improper use of the pronoun “I”. Many people think you should always write “John and I’, when this is not always correct. When posting a picture on Facebook, you should be writing “John and me”. If you were just listing yourself, you wouldn’t write “I”, would you? No, you would write “me”. A common error but still annoying.
- The word irregardless. It means the same as regardless! Why anybody started saying it, I will never know. So stupid.
OK, thank you for letting me rant. These are things that annoy me on almost a daily basis. Feel free to comment on any of your grammatical pet peeves as well! I can’t be alone here!
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