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dmiessler.com | grep understanding: English: Precision Matters

  • Zhasper · 3 years ago
    I'd have added your/you're(/yaw/yore) as well. Also, the fact that 've is short for have, not of (eh, should've = should have, not should of).

    But yes, the two you highlighted are the two most annoying.

    Well, those, and butcher's apostrophe's.
  • Tim · 3 years ago
    I often get annoyed at people that mix up lay (transitive verb, as in setting something down) and lie (intransitive verb, as in to lie down). The only really tricky part is that the past tense of "lie" is "lay" (I lay in bed yesterday).

    Charlie's been hurt.
    Lay him on the bed.
    Lie down, Charlie.
    Charlie now lies on the bed where I lay sleeping last night.