Grammar Police (What ticks you off?)

[willow78]

People who confuse infer and imply. The difference is:

You infer something that you read or hear.

You imply something that you speak or write.

Guilty as charged - I always thought they were interchangeable.

 

[FRE]

How about "7am in the morning"? That implies that it could be 7am in the afternoon else it would not be necessary to state that it is in the morning.

Then we have "hot water heater". That's necessary because it could be a cold water heater. Then of course there is the ordinary water heater.

 

[twoton]

kept saying 'ingenious' when he meant 'indigenous'.

A guy I know likes to talk about movie jondras. (Genre).

 

[twoton]

They are bigly good.

The use of bigly words can embiggen any man.

 

[SurferGirlCA]

ending a sentence in a preposition. "where are you going TO?" ugh!!!

That is a good example of incorrect form, but there's not a hard and fast rule that prepositions can't ever end a sentence. The question you're supposed to ask yourself is, "Does the sentence make sense without it?" If it does, cut it.

Example... you could ask someone, "Where are you going?" and wouldn't change the meaning of, "Where are you going to?"

I would take credit for this but I must confess I got it from Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl.

 

[chicagosam]

The use of bigly words can embiggen any man.

In his case, not where he’d like to be “embiggened”. He’s “enteenied”.

 

[johnnyunitas]

Grammar police tick me off..

 

[twoton]

Grammar police tick me off..

You have two periods at the end of your sentence.

 

[Squirrel1]

You have two periods at the end of your sentence.

Priceless.

 

[822034]

would of instead of would have.

 

[ConanTheBarber]

You have two periods at the end of your sentence.

No no no, 2T.
This is a new wrinkle .. the contracted ellipsis..

 

[twoton]

Like whether to double space between sentences

 

[chicagosam]

No no no, 2T.
This is a new wrinkle .. the contracted ellipsis..

Or a possible rogue variation of the Trump Twitter ellipses which are above any law..

 

[sizehungry]

I don't care . " All that thar book learnin makes no nevermind to me ." Still makes me smile after all this time .

 

[johnnyunitas]

No no no, 2T.
This is a new wrinkle .. the contracted ellipsis..

I am the King of grammar wrinkles. Some call me the Sharpei of Semicolons, some call me the Antidote to the Fountain of Youth, some simply refer to me as the Elephant Strunk.

Grammar rules R 4 suckas..

 

[Squirrel1]

Like whether to double space between sentences

How about two spaces after a period, at the end of a sentence? No one does that anymore.

 

[chicagosam]

How about two spaces after a period, at the end of a sentence? No one does that anymore.

Oddly enough, the schools are teaching one space after a period in the age of technology. Go figure. I’ll stick with two spaces after a period.

 

[Squirrel1]

Oddly enough, the schools are teaching one space after a period in the age of technology. Go figure. I’ll stick with two spaces after a period.

Unfortunately most software removes the second space whenever I am typing. WordPerfect doesn't, but I use a 2002 version if it.

 

[FRE]

How about two spaces after a period, at the end of a sentence? No one does that anymore.

I put two spaces after periods (full stops for the Brits) at the end of sentences. But what bothers me is putting a space before the period at the end of a sentence. I don't know why some people do that.

 

[FRE]

Oddly enough, the schools are teaching one space after a period in the age of technology. Go figure. I’ll stick with two spaces after a period.

I don't always agree with the schools. They have also stopped teaching handwriting, also known as cursive. That means that kids can no longer read historic documents. I don't know how they fill out and sign checks.