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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 9:53AM Let's see if you can guess, by the end of this journal entry, what my absolute, No. 1, pet grammatical peeve is.
I sometimes wonder how folk's can miss this one, because (unlike other nuance's of English grammar), this one is pretty simple to keep straight. Of course, one must be willing to pause and think during the writing process. And, as you may know, I believe all these instantaneous communication's tool's have rendered most individual's totally incapable of that.
Personally, I proofread every, single e-mail, journal post and Facebook update that I write, before it goes live. All those line's and line's of text--of course I'm going to make some mistake's along the way. But the important thing is that I take a few minute's to review my word's before anyone else sees them.
I wish I could say that all the Rice's in my house performed this little check; but those youngster's...perhaps in time they will see the value.
Soooooo...do you know what it is? My pet peeve? (I'm actually kind of concerned that many people will find nothing grammatically wrong with the paragraphs above.)
Reader Comments (4)
Really. This one bother's you more than uncalled-for initial cap's? ;)
Honestly? Yes. Because this is one we learned in school. The uncalled-for initial caps are more of a style issue than a grammar issue. In this instance, anyway.
I know. I'm insufferable.
My second anti-favorite is the use of "I" as an object. Example: "The vice president gave lovely gifts to Stasa and I." ARGH.
Their's no reason this should be such a pet peeve of you'res.
(Can you tell what two of mine are?)
:)
You ever get a Christmas card in the mail addressed to "The Rice's"? And you think to yourself, "The Rice's WHAT? And which of the five Rices who live here are they calling "THE Rice?" Is it Rodney, because he's been a Rice the longest, or me, because I'm the coolest? WHO gets this envelope?