30 Grammar Rules That Many People Fail To Use Correctly, As Pointed Out By Members Of This Online Group

I ain’t doing nothing.

I HATE when someone says ‘could care less’ drives me up the wall

But maybe they are using it correctly and actually mean to be saying, “I do care some. I’m fact, I could care less, but I choose not to.”

The worst one; it doesn't even make sense

This is my pet peeve

It comes from the way it's pronounced, and it's exclusively a mistake that native English speakers make.

This!! Finally!! My biggest pet peeve! I thought I was alone, I didn't realize how large scale this was.

Getting Then/Than confused annoys me almost as much as Affect/Effect. I'll never understand how anyone, let alone an alarmingly large number of people always get the two confused. Also what is it with "that's just how I say it". *My fist makes contact with persons mouth.* "WHAAAAT....that's just how I correct ones poor use of the English language."

This one has to be the stupidest and most annoying of all! To me this proves that many people are just not capable of questioning the most obvious things. If you are a native speaker and have been writing “should of” and “must of” all your life without ever - not once - asking yourself “what the f**k does this mean, anyway, and why am I saying this?”, you are just an idiot that completely lacks the ability to think critically. No excuse.

There was a paragragh once that I saw. You were supposed to read it and count the letter "f's" in the paragragh. But they used the word "of" several times. And so those f's were overlooked most of the time.

One of the most common spelling confusions in the English language, apparently. It's quite easy to see why, I suppose. The one that really grinds my gears for some reason is 'shepard' instead of 'shepherd' when people start discussing their dogs.

Wonder vs wander. That drives me crazy.

Non-English speaker here. I have to confess these make me stumble: lose/loose, chose/choose. I usually google the word up to make sure I’m choosing the right one.

This one is at global epidemic level. Drives me round the twist.

This drives me bonkers for some reason

I didn’t even go to college and I still manage to use the right one every single time.

You mean when they write or type "This is to boring", if they say it it sounds then same. ;)

Maybe it’s the beginning of an SAT question: “This is to boring as playtime is to exciting.”

This is how I teach it… two, too, to: the W in “two” is formed by putting 2 letter V’s together, so it’s the number 2. “Too” means “as well” or “excessively,” so it has an excess letter O (also, “weLL” and “exceSSively” have double letters, just like “tOO”). “To” is a preposition (prePOSITION - think “position”). To change position, you “go to” a different place. Both “go” and “to” have one letter O. There, their, they’re: “There” contains the word “here” (tHERE). Over “there” or over “here.” It’s position/direction. “Their” contains the word “heir” (tHEIR). Heirs inherit possessions. “Their” indicates ownership/possession. “They’re” is “they are”. With the apostrophe, you can see it is two words. (Apostrophes take the place of omitted letters in contracted words. I teach it this way: When a surgeon does surgery, they take out something unnecessary, and then they need to put a stitch in its place. The apostrophe is the “stitch,” which indicates a letter/s have been removed.)

I’m quite young, and I always use the right forms, I’ve always made it my goal to have perfect grammar while writing, mainly for school.

I understand this is technically correct, but not only does this not impede effective communication (you know exactly what they meant) but since language evolves over time, I suspect in the future this distinction will be eliminated and these two words cross-pollenating one another will be considered acceptable, or if nothing else slang.

Stannis? Is that you?

I learned something new about the english language reading this 👍

This is my bugbear

I do most of these things correctly sometimes I wonder if it was where you were educated - I'm a Brit. If I did not say a word or write a word, in the proper context I was told!

It could be, if you push it to hard! You see what I did their? Im pleased with that. :-)