Comments on: Are You Making These Seven Common Grammatical Errors?

By: Louise

Louise — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:45:06 +0000

Also bought & brought are often used interchangeably. This drives me crazy.

By: Bert

Bert — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:21:18 +0000

Another one that leaps out at me all the time has to do with punctuation. It’s become common to put punctuation outside quotation marks. They should be INside them.

Wrong: “I am a marketer”.
Right: “I am a marketer.”

Wrong: “Will you feed the dog”?
Right: “Will you feed the dog?”

The 7 you spotlighted are probably the most common, and if only those get fixed, it would make a huge difference.

Thanks for bringing this up.

By: Aurelius Tjin

Aurelius Tjin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:48:59 +0000

@ tim – the apostrophe in “it’s” is necessary when you’re using it in sentences like “it’s a great day today”, where it’s = it is. If you’re implying to an object or thing then you’d use its, e.g. – “look at that instrument, its shape is very unique”.

@ Yes, to, too and two To = “Are you going to the beach?”. Too = “This is too much for you to handle”. That should clarify

By: nn Brockman

nn Brockman — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:42:04 +0000

How about To, Too, and Two? Mainly To and Too?

I recently had an arguement with my boyfriend about this and found I was right, but it was hard to convince him.

Jenn

By: tim

tim — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:39:40 +0000

Good post. ALways good to remind people of the importance of language. But it does evolve. I would leave out the apostrophe in it’s in all cases. I could be wrong but it is neater!

By: Jeffrey A. Harrington - Business Law, West Palm Beach

Jeffrey A. Harrington - Business Law, West Palm Beach — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:23:31 +0000

I cannot help but occasionally get annoyed by what appears to be simple grammatical errors.

By: Aurelius Tjin

Aurelius Tjin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:20:11 +0000

Thanks for your input guys, they are excellent!

By: Eamon

Eamon — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:00:50 +0000

Thanks for the reminder. With various everyday pressures, text messaging, and so on, it can be easy to make these sort of errors online (and elsewhere) – errors that cab be damaging to one’s online reputation.

By: Internet Marketing Advice

Internet Marketing Advice — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:09:07 +0000

This is interesting ! It reminded me of my school days…my English teacher distributed the list to all students before the exam…well, a lot of us are confusing because the word sounds the same

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:14:48 +0000

I run an online editing website, and I am on a mission to rid Australian websites of these terrible spelling and grammar errors.

If only more people recognised how irritating sloppy writing is for readers!

Even though we are all incredibly busy these days, delivering a clear, error-free message shouldn’t be ditched in the cause of brevity and speed.

If people are too busy to carefully proofread their own copy, as a courtesy to their readers, they should consider having their text professionally edited before publishing it online.

What I find most appalling is the spelling errors I find in online articles on the topics of writing and editing!