Forum: Writers


Subject: Some common grammar mistakes

Crescent opened this issue on Aug 17, 2002 ยท 28 posts


ChuckEvans posted Sat, 17 August 2002 at 10:31 PM

Well, there's some excellent examples of working "criss-crossed" words into the same sentence...(grin)! Don't get me started on grammar. I hate the bastardization that my language is going through. Ugh! I've presented one of the MOST common grammatical errors as an example above this sentence. Can anyone find it? Delicately, I point out that Crescent has made the same mistake. I'm no master of grammar but I do pride myself on mutilating it much less than my southern counterparts. And in a writing forum, intended to assist interested people, I certainly don't want people to become timid in submitting something for fear of having their grammar usage ripped to shreds. That is why I prefaced my remark with the word, delicately. It was meant to be constructive. Feel free to add to the list? OK, here are a few mistakes many people still make: There's no such word as "themself". In the south, one also hears the word, hisself, a lot. Ugh! Use "regardless" instead of "irregardless". The later is not a word, either. "That" is the most overused word in the English language. Example: "I said that he could attend the party." Better is, "I said he could attend the party." As a bit of trivia, "get/got", I believe, has more definitions than any other word.