Grammatical errors that annoy you

[agent817]

Look, I get that no one likes a Grammar Nazi. I have had my moments of being like that. However, there are times when I draw the line. While I get annoyed with the likes of people not knowing when to use "there," "their," or "they're," or even "your" or "you're," the one that upsets me the most is when people use "of" instead of "have." You know exactly what I mean. "Could of" instead of "could have." There is a reason I enunciate "have" when saying anything like "might have" or anything like that. However, I recall correcting people of that error and they get upset with me for it.

What are your picks?

[Soultastic]

I don't know if this is grammar, but the one thing that drives me up a wall is "I could care less". If you CAN care less, then you DO care.

[fw91]

"I'm not worried about nothing" Get rid the not to indicate that you are carefree, or switch the nothing to anything.

[DiBiase is Good]

Not so much grammar but I loathe “gotten”. What exactly is the need for the last three letters? If you take them away you have a word that is easier to say or type and it means the same f***ing thing as gotten!

[Sponsored by Groose Wipes]

When people say R and U instead of are and you. I get shortening words if the words are long but you can't take the extra .2 seconds to type it out a three letter word?

[DSR]

Came in here to say the "would of, could of" thing. Drives me up a wall.

[saneiac]

Not grammar, but punctuation. Adding an unnecessary apostrophe to plural words. “For lunch we sell hamburger’s, pizza’s, and whole chicken’s”. I don’t remember this error being so common prior to the 2000s, but I see it everywhere now, including professionally made sign’s and billboard’s.

[schma]

Lose vs loose. I see it all the time.

[dirtyoldman]

I seen this thread and thought I should stay away.
But now I have went and posted in it.

[agent817]

May 13, 2024 22:12:19 GMT -5 fw91 said:

"I'm not worried about nothing" Get rid the not to indicate that you are carefree, or switch the nothing to anything.

I used to trip about multiple negatives in sentences. I personally don't use them, but I have a friend who has said stuff like "nobody didn't say anything." Of course, rather than directly correct her, I said in response, "So nobody said anything?"

[Magnus the Magnificent]

As a non-native speaker, all of them.
I try my damndest to be correct, and I probably get it wrong many times, so when I see easy ones as there/their/they're or your/you're or of/'ve, it just rives me bonkers.
Makes me wish I could punch people through the monitor..

[Soultastic]

May 14, 2024 12:33:52 GMT -5 Magnus the Magnificent said:

As a non-native speaker, all of them.
I try my damndest to be correct, and I probably get it wrong many times, so when I see easy ones as there/their/they're or your/you're or of/'ve, it just rives me bonkers.
Makes me wish I could punch people through the monitor..

I share your pain.

[Cyno]

May 14, 2024 0:19:00 GMT -5 DSR said:

Came in here to say the "would of, could of" thing. Drives me up a wall.

Big same. When I see it, I'm internally screaming "IT'S 'COULD HAVE' YOU UNCULTURED SWINE."

[Mozenrath]

May 13, 2024 21:53:01 GMT -5 Soultastic said:

I don't know if this is grammar, but the one thing that drives me up a wall is "I could care less". If you CAN care less, then you DO care.

I do often wonder if this initially began as "I could care less", with the implied "but not by much". I know it's tempting to just assume people are stupid, but usually these things are bastardizations of phrases that initially made sense, rather than people just spouting gibberish for the sake of doing it.

[JoDaNa1281]

Being that there are wrestling sections on this forum, one that I see quite a bit on here, is "resigned" instead of "re-signed", when a wrestler stays with a company.

[J. Hova]

Saw vs. Seen. My boss is really well spoken but he has a mental block when it comes to that. It makes me cringe.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Is it 'on accident' or 'by accident'?

[Timeless Hayterade]

May 14, 2024 0:19:00 GMT -5 DSR said:

Came in here to say the "would of, could of" thing. Drives me up a wall.

In addition to those examples, I'm inclined to add "should of."

[Denny Zen is Cooking™]

Lose/loose and lightning/lightening annoy me the most.

I more or less write for a living, and I understand both how easy it is to make mistakes when you are typing quickly and how vernacular language is not necessarily strictly grammatically correct, so most things don't really bother me that much. But those two, and especially seeing people use "loose" to mean lose, annoy me to an extent that, fair or not, I usually assume that the person who did it is not particularly intelligent.

[Denny Zen is Cooking™]

May 14, 2024 14:50:50 GMT -5 JoDaNa1281 said:

Being that there are wrestling sections on this forum, one that I see quite a bit on here, is "resigned" instead of "re-signed", when a wrestler stays with a company.

That's a really funny one because it creates a literal contronym.