Commonly made grammatical/spelling mistakes

[iNerd]

What about than and then? -.-

[herzy]

same: german and french helped my knowledge of english grammar immeasurably

[herzy]

What about than and then? -.-

*twitch*

[iNerd]

What about than and then? -.-

*twitch*

Quite prone to it myself, always have to edit my posts

[fuzzylogic]

@herzy: Epic triple post

@fuzzy-logic: Where's the space/time for another subject, "English grammar".

@Andioo: ...but it's prize, not prise

If not another subject, schools should place a greater emphasis on grammar, especially in the early years.  If my memory serves me correctly, in Junior school we had grammar as a separate subject and in year seven/eight, we had two lessons of english devoted to grammar every rotation.  Also, French/German/Italian students have grammar drilled into them, so why can't we!  Sometimes I think our understanding of grammar in LOTEs is better than our understanding of grammar in our own language (in general, that is.)!

You speak like my old (v. old) English teacher who got us to go through the latin roots of English words. Personally Grammar would bore me to death and LOL so true, I know more Japanese grammar than English!

LOL, I had an English teacher exactly like that.  In fact, I had quite a few.  Plus my Latin teacher would go off topic a lot and talk about English grammar in parallel to the Latin we were using.  I think I'm a product of such old-school teaching!  

[Greatness]

(un)consciousness and decision, damn c's and s's

Oh i hate those as well

[iNerd]

(un)consciousness and decision, damn c's and s's

Oh i hate those as well

Especially conscientious

[Greatness]

@herzy: Epic triple post

@fuzzy-logic: Where's the space/time for another subject, "English grammar".

@Andioo: ...but it's prize, not prise

If not another subject, schools should place a greater emphasis on grammar, especially in the early years.  If my memory serves me correctly, in Junior school we had grammar as a separate subject and in year seven/eight, we had two lessons of english devoted to grammar every rotation.  Also, French/German/Italian students have grammar drilled into them, so why can't we!  Sometimes I think our understanding of grammar in LOTEs is better than our understanding of grammar in our own language (in general, that is.)!

You speak like my old (v. old) English teacher who got us to go through the latin roots of English words. Personally Grammar would bore me to death and LOL so true, I know more Japanese grammar than English!

LOL tell me about it... I didnt even know there was such thing as a relative clause in english. 

[Greatness]

(un)consciousness and decision, damn c's and s's

Oh i hate those as well

Especially conscientious

Heheh i love it when teachers spell that incorrectly on school reports

[Andiio]

@herzy: Epic triple post

@fuzzy-logic: Where's the space/time for another subject, "English grammar".

@Andioo: ...but it's prize, not prise

I only mean in some words obviously.

I was joking lol, you're right obviously and MS Word is quite annoying in that regard :/

Yeah MS word is a bitch with an OCD for adding Z's ;p

[sheepgomoo]

oh my english tutor told me this but apparently gets and gots shouldn't be used... eg. i got married is bad grammer o.o
and smart isnt intelligent, it means well dressed; dumb shouldnt be used to mean stupid, it actually means cannot speak.

i dont know..

[pi]

Can someone explain 'who' and 'whom'?

[herzy]

As a general rule, if there is ever a 'to', then use whom. As in, To whom do I address this letter?

If you know your grammar, you'll know this is because 'who' is used as a subject, 'whom' as an object. It's the same as the differene between he/his (who) and him (whom).

I sent a letter to him. To whom do I send this letter?

It is his turn to deal. Who's turn is it to deal?

[lexitu]

oh my english tutor told me this but apparently gets and gots shouldn't be used... eg. i got married is bad grammer o.o
and smart isnt intelligent, it means well dressed; dumb shouldnt be used to mean stupid, it actually means cannot speak.

i dont know..

Hmm yeah. It's not really bad grammar, more bad expression. "Got" is a flexible word that can interchange with more specific words. Overusing "got" not only makes an essay stale, but it also means that you're not refining your expression to convey a more exact meaning. E.g "I got a letter" could easily be replaced by "I received a letter".

As for dumb, it carries the "stupid" meaning informally. Personally, I love language being stretched to include both informal and figurative words.

[iffets12345]

Although it wouldn't come up too often in an English essay: MUM not mom!!!!

Haha, EXACTLY!
[/quote]

MAN YOU GUYS ARE NEVER GONNA LET THIS GO.
I like "Mom" hmph


Oh, and in Literature class, our final class in fact we had "Emma" trivia. Our teacher rather meanly humiliated this girl because instead of asking the question, she went,
"What is wrong with this question? To who did Frank send a letter apologising for his poor behaviour?"
or
"What's wrong with the word "affect" in, What affect did Emma's criticism of Mr. Martin have on Harriet's decision?"

Poor girl.