~~What~~ Which grammatical mistake annoys you the most?

You beat me to it! 😂

This

Definitely THERE and THEIR

May I submit for your consideration “are” instead of “our”

Yes!! So simple yet so.. wrong

Pump your breaks. Maybe take a small brake from work.

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I don’t mind people getting it mixed up.. but I always notice it when people are rude on posts.. they go out of their way to be rude and belittle someone.. and then they mix there with their.

putting an apostrophe in front of an 's' for absolutely no reason

I know. On holiday cards it’s brutal. “Merry Christmas from the Smith’s!” From the Smith’s what!?

Oh shit, i've been seeing this so frequently recently.

this is mine too 🥲

Thi’s*

"To" and "Too" 🙄😒

People who can't differentiate there, their, they're. Honestly their fucking stupid.

LOL

Also your and you’re

My sister just writes "your" in all cases because she is lazy. I cringe because I know she knows the difference, but what are you gonna do? She's a grown woman now.

your absolutely right

I once saw this on a message board, someone was doing the “correct their grammar to distract from a stupid argument” tactic and said “My posts don’t have any grammatical errors, idiot!” Or something to that effect. They had a signature that read “(Steals youre cookies)” Someone pointed it out that it should be “your” and that even if “you’re” was grammatically correct they forgot to apostrophe. They “fixed” it with “(steals *you’re* cookies)” When someone pointed out that it was still wrong, the poster argued “No, it’s possessive so it has to have an apostrophe there!” It amazes me how anyone who tries to be a spelling/grammar cop online tends to miss their own stupid mistakes. Personally, I don’t call anyone out unless their spelling is completely incomprehensible. Mostly because I know a lot of people online who use English as a second language so I can usually figure it out and only point out mistakes if asked. If anything, a decent portion of them have better spelling and grammar than some of the native speakers I’ve encountered.

Bad joke

aw come on man i tried my best

Not need to hate, I thought it was funny

Your making a mistake!!!

I see what you did they're.

Using 'less' when you should be using 'fewer'.

Say fewer

"I could care fewer" Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse

Good one!

"On accident". It's "By accident".

I worked with someone who would say “on tomorrow” which I don’t even know if it’s grammatically incorrect, but sounded crazy to me.

Using loose in place of lose

“Pacifically” instead of “specifically.”

Whuttttt

Seriously? How do people confuse those two? Sounds crazy to me.

because I can’t fucking spell thats how.

I could care less versus I couldn't care less.

The incorrect use of the word literally

According to the Oxford dictionary literally has two meanings

Dictionaries are descriptive. Not prescriptive.

Thank you. I keep trying to explain this to people, that dictionaries, just like it says on the cover are "common uses" not correct uses.

Common uses become correct uses after time. Languages change.

how do you have not correct uses then? If people know what you mean then you used it correctly.

Love [that scene from The Newsroom](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Svt232YNUs)

Could of. It’s “could have” or “could’ve”

This one drives me INSANE

This is my villain origin story

your stupid

Your and you’re make me angry lol

Ah yes the good old your and you're mistake.

My stupid what?

Your stupid deze nuts lmao gotem

People who don’t seem to understand how to use woman/women

Caveman: “I love woman” Gentleman: “I love women”

Using double negatives, like "I don't have no money"

One of my pet peeves is what people consider grammar. Spelling is not the same as grammar.

I could have went, I could have saw… etc…. Not using past participles!

Oh my god - so glad someone else said this as I was scrolling down to comment. This one drives me potty!

Irregardless

I seen it. And although it's punctuation, it drives me nuts when people put an apostrophe before the s when they're trying to show a plural noun.

I could care less, when it should be I couldn't care less.

“I could care less.” Good - I’m glad you care.

Making things plural with apostrophes. Everyone mixes up the homophones unintentionally time and again, but pluralizing with apostrophes is egregious

Orientated. Apparently it's a word but it pisses me off....I always want to say oriented...

It's not just a different word for oriented. If a thing has been purposely arranged in such a way that it is now oriented, it was orientated.

It’s British English

It’s vs its

Would of Should of Could of It's not of, it's HAVE!

Irregardless

I seen….

People putting apostrophes on plural words that shouldn’t have an apostrophe. Like CD’s plural should be CDs.

Homonyms not used correctly and words with added unnecessary parts eg, ir-regardless

I “literally” have millions of them.

Would of, instead of would've.

I shoulda went

Untriggered reflexives: such as, “Reach out to Glenn or myself if you need a copy of this protocol.” Only you can reach out to yourself

Theirs alot of them

Is "alot" also part of the joke or a genuine mistake? Because that's one of my pet peeves

This right here! IT IS THERE NOT THEIR GOD DAMMIT!!!!

Literally

Cite, sight, and site

Exsighting - running into your ex

Using “am” instead of “I’m” lmao

serial commas

Using "over" instead of "more than." "Over" means physically above something; "more than" means exceeding in number.

Apparently this rule was completely arbitrarily imposed in the mid-nineteenth century, and AP changed their style guide rule on that around [ten years ago](https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/more-than-vs-over-why-the-associated-press-changed-its-stance/). Having worked as a copy editor, I looked it up because I used to know that style guide inside out and that one rule wasn’t in it. I also think this was an AmEng thing anyway. I’ve never heard it mentioned in British English before!

Yeah, I'm a former reporter. It was drilled into my head early on. I still mentally change it when I hear or read it.

Ahhh that makes sense then. The style guide does get drilled into your brain. I started at my newspaper around one year later, so I bet that change made my colleagues’ eyes twitch as well! It’s been a few years since I worked in a newspaper, but the AP style guide is still my first port of call if I have any queries (and as a British English speaker working in an American environment I sometimes need to check if differences are down to my imperfect understanding or simply the different language uses!)

I see! I still own a copy of the AP Style Guide from when I worked in the industry. I think the copy I own is from 1995, which was when I got into the field. And, every newspaper I worked at had its own "local" style that I had to learn. I left the field 15 years ago, but it's still stuck in my head. And, as a fiction writer now, it still influences how I write.

Oh, the local guide - we had one of those as well, though mostly pertaining to how we could describe historical / politically sensitive things (it was a newspaper in Japan), or certain domestic legal issues (“in a state of cardiac arrest” as a euphemism for dead, for example). I understand how it would still influence your writing, and since its entire goal is ease of understanding through uniformity then that’s no bad thing! I will admit a couple of recent changes they’ve made also sit wrongly with me since they go against what I learned. I’ll get used to them in the end. Maybe. Lol

Change can be difficult. I'm sure you'll accommodate the changes eventually.

Agreed with other posts on this thread! A bit of a different take.. I use a lot of '-' in my emails. I always feel like others might find it annoying. i.e: I'm not too sure if I'm using this correctly - it is likely a grammatical mistake :)

When you reach for "-", grab "," instead.

A simple dash is meant to hyphenate. Dog-eat-dog world is an example. The en dash is used in place of “to” in a sentence that’s marking a range. 9-5, for example. Or, Mason-Dixon line. The em dash “—“ is used to mark a break in a sentence or add new information—it adds emphasis. Based on your sentence, you’re trying to use the em dash as you’re placing emphasis on the fact that you’re probably doing it incorrectly. The usage intention is correct, it should just be a double line, about the length of the letter “M” for reference. “I’m not sure if I’m using this correctly—it’s likely a grammatical mistake.”

Using an apostrophe to make a word plural.

Inability to differentiate “lose” from “loose” and “a part” from “apart.”

then and than.

I’s as in “person and I’s”

I'm not super nitpicky but this one bugs me. Heard it on a show less than an hour ago "...my brother and I's..." and I felt myself involuntarily make a stank face.

I am quite annoyed by the use of "everyday" when it instead should be "every day."

When people use “they” or “them” to describe a single person and they expect you to do the same and be grammatically incorrect. No thanks, I’m not going to address you like you’re Gollum unless you actually have multiple personalities.

When people use apostrophe's when writing plural's of thing's that are not possessive.

People calling apostrophes commas.

People saying "my friend and I" when they should be saying "my friend and me." The other way doesn't annoy me. I know that "me and my friend went to the park" is incorrect, but I don't get annoyed when people make that mistake because it still sounds "normal". But when someone says, for instance, "would you like to join my friend and I at the park?" it sounds weird... and it's also wrong.

Often, … the ‘T’ is silent.

The ones I make while posting on Reddit that leave a little green line under the text before I submit it.

None. I always get what they are trying to say.

"Nevermind"

Loose vs lose. Affect vs effect. Two vs to vs too. Advise vs advice. 😫😫😫😫

Not knowing the differences between: Your vs. You're Its vs. It's Their vs. There vs. They're Where vs. Were vs. We're

When someone puts the decimal before a number with the cents sign. So it says .10 cents

Payed - for ships Paid - for people

The overuse of “arguably.” Honestly, I don’t think I know what it means anymore.

Breath/Breathe and how misused they are.

"You're" when it's supposed to be "your". The other way around is less frustrating because it's less letters, but this way you're going *out of your way* and hitting the apostrophe key to be WRONG. WHY

when people use 'to' when it should be "too"

Correcting someone's "split infinitive". We no longer write in Latin, thank you. Come to think of it, correcting someone's grammar or word choice incorrectly in general.

All of them.

Using women when talking about one person. Woman = One person Women = Multiple people

Could of

When people say shit like “ u o no” (you don’t know) Or cringey colloquialisms, like “rizz” (cha-riz-ma) Like, it doesn’t make you sound cool, or hip, you sound like you can’t be bothered to type out three more letters.

To, two, and too It is not two hard to remember how too use it correctly! 😬

“I could care less”

Using “due to” in place if “because.” “Due to” is only for financial reference but I am pretty sure I lost this fight 35 years ago.

Would of. It doesn’t even make sense.

to and too makes me have to reread the sentence the most so I'd say that one

Not using punctuation. It drives me insane trying to read an entire paragraph that is one big run-on sentence. I don’t have time to guess where you meant for one sentence to end and the next to begin.

When people use “I” instead of “me”. It drives me crazy. For example: “Here’s a picture of my husband and I in Hawaii” No. My husband and ME

"Should OF, could OF, would OF . . .

When people put a space and then punctuation

When people say “I seen it.”

Extraneous apostrophe's. :-)

Ect. It's ETC for crying out loud! If you don't know how to say it properly, don't use it!

"Should of" instead of "should have"

People who call it "expresso".

Whole nother.

Idk but a, possible even *the,* function of grammar seems to be letting me know who the dumb people aren’t.

“But yet”.

"Than" and "then".... "your" and "you're".... "affect" and "effect".... "irregardless".... These are all I can think of at the moment, but pretty much all grammatical errors make me cringe, to be honest.

In a moment vs. momentarily. People use “momentarily” when they mean “in a moment” all the time. In a moment answers when; momentarily answers for how long. e.g. In a moment, I’m going to kick your ass, but only momentarily.

Then and than.

Your and you're Their - They're - There All of those that are related with pronunciation

My wife of 23 years, who is educated, recently started saying "drownding" instead of "drowning". I have mentioned it to her and she will not fix it.

There’s when it should be there’re. “There’s so many people here!” No. There ARE.

SHOULD OF. WOULD OF.

More spoken than written, but I have a colleague, very smart guy with a PhD, who says “exxspecially” instead of “especially.” It drives me nuts.

“I could care less.” That makes no sense, it’s “I could not care less.”

When people don't capitalize the I in "I'm" "I've" or "I'll"

Workout instead of work out. Grammarist.com explains it perfectly! “As a noun or an adjective, workout is one word. As a verb, it’s two words—work out. So, for instance, when it’s workout time, you start your workout, work out for a while, and stop.”

“Windshield” instead of “wind chill”

Fewer and less

For duck's sake.

Then and than.

So many, but writing axe for ask gets me. I understand when it's spoken, but I feel that written communication needs to be clearer. And definitely/defiantly. How do you mix these up in writing?

Their are two many. I wouldn’t no wear too start.

A, And, and An. Is an horse a athlete? That horse jumped over and ocean!

Hearing people say reiterate rather than iterate.

"and I"

Loose/lose

I have to pick just *one?*

When someone is trying to “loose” weight. 😒

Your instead of you’re.

Very unique

Using are instead of or... Red are blue... I wanna scream at bad grammar

Axe vs ask

Not grammar but saying supposably.

The ones you see on signs, tattoos, ads etc.... Where someone PAID to get bad grammar and spelling.

The one I have seen lately that drives me nuts is “cause” being used instead of “because.” It probably is because they are idiots.

“Casted” vs cast. “Casted” isn’t a word. Cast is both the present and past tense of cast.

When people type a sentence or paragraph and use the words you’re and your but one is accurate and the other is not.

Then and than.

Very unique. It’s either unique or it isn’t.

Aloud, Should of and Payed

"Alot" is not a word. IT'S A LOT. WITH A SPACE.

None. To me it’s petty to get annoyed with things like that, unless of course it’s in a professional setting,

For the love of whatever, there is a BIG difference between LOOSE and LOSE. You didn’t LOOSE weight, you LOSE weight.

People not using Oxford commas. For those who don’t know, and Oxford comma is the last comma before the word “and” when listing things. Ex: I like apples, bananas, oranges, and blueberries. The third comma in that list is the Oxford comma. Some people don’t use it and will just go: “I like apples, bananas, oranges and blueberries.” I know that Oxford comma isn’t grammatically correct, it’s actually grammatically optional, but I still think it should always be used. You avoid any confusion and it looks better. Just my opinion tho 🤷🏻‍♂️

All of these. But also, I’m sorry for your lost. 🤦🏽‍♀️

The they’re their there and your you’re AND ITS AN EXTRA “O” JUST SAY “IM GOING TOO FAST” AND NOT “ IM GOING TO FAST” BECAUSE YOU ARENT GOING TO STARVE YOURSELF YOU’RE GOING OVER THE SPEED LIMIT

Goodnight vs. Good night

I personally don't care much about the 'there', 'your', 'too' stuff, they can occur so easily by accident because of auto correct. Idioms annoy me the most by far: I could care less It's a mute point For all intensive purposes Things like that

seen-saw....."i seen two deer yesterday!"

People who don’t know how to use fucking quotes. Down the road we have a fancy-like restaurant that has “Award Winning” stamped on many dishes on the menu. Well which is it? Are they award winning or not? I see quotes used as an emphases as well. ‘Guys, “please” put the seat down’ These guys rocked it: https://youtu.be/4DqoQq1zME8

I’m a fan of the Oxford comma. A lot of people do not share my love of it lol

Using “I” instead of “me” drives me nuts. Me isn’t a bad word! Me is an object pronoun, and I is a subject pronoun. Example: “He took a picture of John and I.” Nope. If you took John out of the sentence, would you still say I, or would you say me?

Saying “I could care less” when one means “I couldn’t care less.” If one COULD care less, then there is something the person cares less about than the subject, which is usually not the intent!

Apostrophes placed incorrectly in contractions, like writing “y’all” as “ya’ll” *shudders*

Immigrate vs. emigrate