Comments on: Grammar mistakes that drive me a little bit crazy

By: carolina

carolina — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:48:54 +0000

One that bugs me is ” rung” for “rang”. eg ” I rung him last night”. 🙁

By: Marilynn Lazorko

Marilynn Lazorko — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:43:14 +0000

I have noticed on my local TV station lately that the news- readers all seem to be suffering from the same malady. Maybe it is the writers’ fault!
They will start a sentence, then add a pronoun which basically repeats the subject of the sentence. It makes them sound as if they never finished grade 4 English! Is this a new trend, like the over- use of ‘like’ ???
e.g. “The days of hoping for rain, they are over.”
What is the correct term for this error? I cannot remember it.

By: jelly

jelly — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:47:32 +0000

What about “fewer” and “less” god damnit, I HATE THAT ONE!

By: Lyn

Lyn — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:25:23 +0000

How about ‘brought’ and ‘bought’? As in, “My neighbour brought a new house.” or “I bought the groceries in from the car.” Aaaargh!!

And this is in speech. I hear these two mixed up all the time and most of the offenders are chronic mis-users, so it’s not just a rush job in typing.

By: David

David — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 02:51:06 +0000

Its is like his, or hers. No apostrophe is required.

By: Anne-Marie Chisnall

Anne-Marie Chisnall — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 02:35:17 +0000

You didn’t add ‘your’ and ‘you’re’! Maybe one day these irritations will disappear as we ‘simplify’ language. I’ve noticed my phone sometimes leaves out the apostrophe in ‘don’t’ and I occasionally let it go in a text as ‘dont’. (Shock horror — my true confession!)