YOUR/YOU?RE

 

?You?re? is always a contraction of ?you are.? If you?ve written ?you?re,? try substituting ?you are.? If it doesn?t work, the word you want is ?your.? Your writing will improve if you?re careful about this.

 

If someone thanks you, write back ?you?re welcome? for ?you are welcome.?

 

your = A person's; one's: Is that your llama in the bathroom?

you're = You are: You're a buttwipe.

 

THEY?RE/THEIR/THERE

 

Many people are so spooked by apostrophes that a word like ?they?re? seems to them as if it might mean almost anything. In fact, it?s always a contraction of ?they are.? If you?ve written ?they?re,? ask yourself whether you can substitute ?they are.? If not, you?ve made a mistake. ?Their? is a possessive pronoun like ?her? or ?our? ?They eat their hotdogs with sauerkraut.? Everything else is ?there.? ?There goes the ball, out of the park! See it? Right there! There aren?t very many home runs like that.? ?Thier? is a common misspelling, but you can avoid it by remembering that ?they? and ?their? begin with the same three letters. Another hint: ?there? has ?here? buried inside it to remind you it refers to place, while ?their? has ?heir? buried in it to remind you that it has to do with possession.

 

their = belongs to a group: Tell those two to put their pants on and mop up the motor oil.

they're = they are: They're driving me nuts with that Ride it like a Ford commercial.

there = 1. At or in that place: Sit your ass over there.

2. To, into, or toward that place: Do NOT go in there!

3. At that stage, moment, or point: Stop there before you make any more wrong mistakes.

4. In that matter: I can't agree with him there.

 

WRONG:

COULD OF, SHOULD OF, WOULD OF

 

RIGHT:

COULD HAVE, SHOULD HAVE, WOULD HAVE or COULD'VE. SHOULD'VE, WOULD'VE

 

This is one of those errors typically made by a person more familiar with the spoken than the written form of English. A sentence like ?I would have gone if anyone had given me free tickets? is normally spoken in a slurred way so that the two words ?would have? are not distinctly separated, but blended together into what is properly rendered "would?ve.? seeing that ?V? tips you off right away that ?would?ve? is a contraction of ?would have.? But many people hear ?would of? and that?s how they write it. Wrong.

 

Note that ?must of? is similarly an error for ?must have.?

 

Learn more common errors at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

Many people make mistakes with "to" and "too" as well.

I didnt know I was still in school

i don't think people really give a crap to be honest with you. ive grown used to reading horrible grammar on all forums. people are either to lazy to type properly or just too young and don't know any better.

 

ill be the first to admit ive let me grammar slip on msg boards. as long as you can read it thats all that matters to me

Yikes...I hope you didn't take the time to put that together...

i don't think people really give a crap to be honest with you. ive grown used to reading horrible grammar on all forums. people are either to lazy to type properly or just too young and don't know any better.

 

ill be the first to admit ive let me grammar slip on msg boards. as long as you can read it thats all that matters to me

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Did you make those grammar mistakes on purpose??

Yikes...I hope you didn't take the time to put that together...

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Don't worry I copied and pasted most of it. I only came up with the example sentences.

:notworthy

 

Thank you. You might think people don't care, but it sometimes is hard to understand what one is trying to say when their paragraph is full of grammatical errors. It also is a bad habit. You don't want to be writing a memo for work and f*** it all up because you got in the habit of not typing correctly. You could get something right the first time if you always type correctly, but if you never distinguish between "you're" and "your" it will take you longer to write reports and such.

I for one will respect the opinion of one who can type properly more than that of one who can't.

Grammer are stupid.

 

Pie are square

ur a m00k turd u lil... i think them who talk like tis thyre grammer b t3h fine

*Waits for the "here/hear" and "we're/were/wear/where" lessons*

The one that always gets me is loosing for losing.

*Waits for the "here/hear" and "we're/were/wear/where" lessons*

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HEAR/HERE

 

If you find yourself writing sentences like ?I know I left my wallet hear!? you should note that ?hear? has the word ?ear? buried in it and let that remind you that it refers only to hearing and is always a verb (except when you are giving the British cheer ?Hear! Hear!? ). ?I left my wallet here? is the correct expression.

 

WERE/WHERE

 

Sloppy typists frequently leave the H out of ?where.? Spelling checkers do not catch this sort of error, of course, so look for it as you proofread.

 

:whistle

I wish this could be posted in all areas of the board, and on Reason63's hand.

Your wasting our time here Petey, they're is no way people will actually abide by these rules, so get outta hear with dis ish, and go somewere else with it.

 

Seriously though, don't we have something better to do than patrol the message boards with proper grammer?

i don't think people really give a crap to be honest with you. ive grown used to reading horrible grammar on all forums. people are either to lazy to type properly or just too young and don't know any better.

 

ill be the first to admit ive let me grammar slip on msg boards. as long as you can read it thats all that matters to me

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Did you make those grammar mistakes on purpose??

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obviously :thumbup

 

im sure everyone has better things to do then play grammar police. i actually saw someone make a reply to a thread in the marlins forum of simply:

 

"Its spelled this way not this way" etc...

 

This kind of post does not contribute to the thread at all. Stop playing grammar police and deal with it.

ur soo kool ! their going to the heet game tonite ! :plain