Commonly made grammatical/spelling mistakes

[Andiio]

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

Haha, EXACTLY!

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

Haha, EXACTLY!

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.
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Mom is like MAWM
LOL

[iffets12345]

are you purposely imitating my poor quoting technique?

[lynt.br]

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

[Predator]

I know a few American people well I am sure we all do haha.
They weren't too sure on the use of things such as 'u' for words such as colour so they did worried over mistakes and being marked down for spelling.
One that I see is people using commas way to often in a big sentence. If it is big break down into two seperate ones that can be connected easily.
Also then and than also trip me up sometimes even though it is one of the easier ones to get right.

[dhua]

This thread is making me twitch - it's like an amalgamation of my pet hates. My one is slightly less relevant, but whenever you use 'if' as an hyperthetical, use 'were' or 'had' not 'was'.

If I were to go to the shops?

Would you still go out with me if I were married?

The use of "an" should be highlighted. "An" is used before a word beginning with a vowel, or in some special circumstances like say "an hour".

[_henwee]

A eucalyptus tree

[_henwee]

This thread is making me twitch - it's like an amalgamation of my pet hates. My one is slightly less relevant, but whenever you use 'if' as an hyperthetical, use 'were' or 'had' not 'was'.

If I were to go to the shops?

Would you still go out with me if I were married?

How about:
If we had to enrol by Friday then I would do it tomorrow.

[lexitu]

YES! 'An' should not be used unthinkingly - it should be used in a natural way: an hour, an honest person, a historic event, a euro, etc.

[herzy]

*an historic event...

[herzy]

it's because of the french influence on our language. as a general rule, french nouns beginning with h would be preceded by 'an', same as 'un' being pronounced in french before a vowel or a (silent) h.

[lexitu]

*an historic event...

Grr!!!! Punch on time mate I know this is by no way solid I-told-you-so material, but it makes a lot of sense. On ABC's word watch good old Kel (?) Richards was saying that the an is only used for when there is a vowel sound at the beginning of a word. Historic has a consonant sound because the h is not 'silent'. It just feels so much more fluent.

I await the surrebuttal.

[Andiio]

*an historic event...

Grr!!!! Punch on time mate I know this is by no way solid I-told-you-so material, but it makes a lot of sense. On ABC's word watch good old Kel (?) Richards was saying that the an is only used for when there is a vowel sound at the beginning of a word. Historic has a consonant sound because the h is not 'silent'. It just feels so much more fluent.

I await the surrebuttal.

Which is technically right? As in, hypothetically speaking, if we were to write "a/an historic event" in the Eng exam, would we write a or an?

[luken93]

*an historic event...

Grr!!!! Punch on time mate I know this is by no way solid I-told-you-so material, but it makes a lot of sense. On ABC's word watch good old Kel (?) Richards was saying that the an is only used for when there is a vowel sound at the beginning of a word. Historic has a consonant sound because the h is not 'silent'. It just feels so much more fluent.

I await the surrebuttal.

Which is technically right? As in, hypothetically speaking, if we were to write "a/an historic event" in the Eng exam, would we write a or an?

an event which is historic

[lexitu]

Haha Luke, and @ Andilo - I think there are arguments for both. Like a few things in the English language it's ambiguous.

[luken93]

Haha Luke, and @ Andilo - I think there are arguments for both. Like a few things in the English language it's ambiguous.

If you're going to correct grammatical mistakes, maybe get Andiio's name correct

that deserves another karma hahaha