Greetings grammar nerds and everyone who believes punctuation matters, comas save lives, and use the correct version or your/you’re and there/their/they’re every single time. This post is for you!
I just hat it when I’m reading social media posts and the OP has something foolish like missed a word out of their sentences. Then I’m left to guess which verb they had wanted to write. Or worst they uses the wrong tense of a verb or don’t put the “s” on verb that is supposed to be plural. Now, everyone has of days, or is typing fast and ocasionaly messes things when tia ping, but peas people, go back and read what you’ve typed before you post. Am I rite?Now, here’s the fun. How many mistakes do you see in this post?
Let us know in the comments!
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This hurts my head
I understood it. Therefore, all rigid rule violations are forgiven. The prescriptivists need to say there is only way to punctuate, but that is not true. Read the history of grammar to follow the arbitrary rules and how they developed. Compare British punctuation with our the US version. What a world, what a world…!
I found at least 22 errors and maybe more, if you know which style rules should be in use.
Did you mean commas save lives?
(sorry)
I found 18 mistakes, including spelling errors, missing words, grammatical goofs, and mixed tenses. Oh, and let’s not forget the reliance on spell-check programs!
I read quickly, but looks like 16 mistakes 🤔🤔
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I see 17 errors.
I counted 20 errors.
It reminds me of my best grammar teacher in junior high school. I can hear her crying from heaven😉
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What fun! I hope folks realized the title and introduction section have errors also. Glad to know I’m not the only member of the grammar police. I’ll stop reading a serious news story or even a trivial social media post as soon as I come across an error.
First line should be spelled as hate, and the OP says something foolish should be replaced with “certain people” or “some people”.
Second line should read “missing a word” out of their sentences.
Third line was too narrow. It should instead say “type of wording that person is trying to convey.”
Continuing on…the next statement should say, “or maybe they used the wrong tense of which they meant to be singular, but instead turned out to be plural. Now, everyone has bad days (which I completely understand), where they might be typing too fast and therefore mess up before you hit the send button. But please, hear me out for a second–go back and read over it again what you typed before you hit the post button. Am I right?
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There are too many to count without printing it out. I counted more than 20. Do you count multiples in one word?
I stopped after finding fifteen errors. My head hurt too badly to continue.
I’m not good at counting, so let’s just try to fix it. Here’s my second rough draft. Someone else edit this to make the third, and so on.
“A social media post containing errors, such as foolishly missed words, is one of my biggest pet peeves. I must then guess which word was intended, or, worse, they make errors in the tense or subject-verb agreement. Everyone makes mistakes, but we would all benefit from an effort to proofread before submitting.”
I’m liking your response.
I found at least 15 errors.
In my opinion, the goal is readability. So, for readability and entertainment purposes, I found 13 proofreading errors which would hinder a reader from getting any benefit from the reading.