Grammar slam

[Acker79]

These amused me, and maybe they will educate people.

 

[CheeseRolls]

I think we may be seeing some of these popping up on threads from now on.

 

[The Legend that IS Lawro]

Its easy if your smart,but its to easy too criticize people what make mistakes just because your clever.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

As I posted last year

 

[BN9 BHA]

Brilliant, thank you for this thread, I think it will help a thicko like me.

I hope his tattoos are spelt correctly.

 

[BN9 BHA]

As I posted last year

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Brilliant, thanks I think I will print this off.

 

[Wilko]

The one that interests me is the then/than as I never witnessed people make that grammatical error until about 5 years ago, I now see it everywhere.

The label on a drink I bought the other day (from M&S) it stated 'Less then 5% sugars'

In shortlist magazine this week it states 'You could do worse then going to see this film'

WTF?

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Along the same lines...

 

[Notters]

The one that interests me is the then/than as I never witnessed people make that grammatical error until about 5 years ago, I now see it everywhere.

The label on a drink I bought the other day (from M&S) it stated 'Less then 5% sugars'

In shortlist magazine this week it states 'You could do worse then going to see this film'

WTF?

I've never seen that before, but I think it might melt my brain if I do.

 

[maltaseagull]

Its easy if your smart,but its to easy too criticize people what make mistakes just because your clever.

 

[Very Blue Tits]

And now say goodbye to the rest of your (or is that you're...!) working day

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/write/

 

[JBizzleBeard]

I'm seeing people using worse instead of worst an awful lot lately and vice versa.

 

[The Legend that IS Lawro]

I'm seeing people using worse instead of worst an awful lot lately and vice versa.

Worst than that is 'should have' instead of the correct 'should of'

 

[One Love]

And now say goodbye to the rest of your (or is that you're...!) working day

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/write/

Well I was taught not to start a sentence with a conjunction like "and or "but".

 

[dougdeep]

Well I was taught not to start a sentence with a conjunction like "and or "but".

...and never end one with a preposition.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Less and less people know the difference between "fewer" and "less". Drives me bonkers.

 

[KZNSeagull]

It's about time gratuitous violence and swearing made a comeback in the field of education . But they are amusing.

 

[The Large One]

Another one creeping in is the joining of two words to make one which doesn't really exist.

'A lot' seems to be morphing into 'alot', or worse 'allot'. The latter does exist, but not in the form to mean 'an unspecified amount'. I've no idea how or why that is happening.

 

[The Legend that IS Lawro]

If 'to boldly go is good enough for Captain Kirk then it's good enough for me

 

[spring hall convert]

I'm fairly relaxed on grammar these days & a number of mistakes are understandable in a way. However, the one that makes my blood boil is should of, could of, would of. Where did these even come from? It's not even like they actually make any sense or are an abbreviation of something that does.