neon reverie
ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍᴇʀ ᴅɪsᴄɪᴘʟᴇ
I stand with you !! They can try and pry those adverbs from my cold dead hands - I will continue using them no matter what every grammar checker thinks!
Experiences Spelling, grammar and punctuation pet peeves!
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HowlingWoods
"And she heaved the forest upon her back"
Honestly I'm pretty chill when it comes to spelling/grammar/punctuation but I have one that you don't see very often but it drives me up the freaking wall. I've only seen maybe two or three different people do it in my 10+ years of roleplay but each time it makes me wonder just WHY?!
People will put a space on BOTH sides of a comma.
Example:
INCORRECT: If only I was stronger , I could beat him!
CORRECT: If only I was stronger, I could beat him!
Honestly I just can't-
People will put a space on BOTH sides of a comma.
Example:
INCORRECT: If only I was stronger , I could beat him!
CORRECT: If only I was stronger, I could beat him!
Honestly I just can't-
Murdergurl
will turn your insides into your outsides
Aside from the ever common your vs. you're, and the their, there, and they're misuse, the one that really irks me is using than in place of then.
Also, when people have a run-on sentence that should, at the very least, be broken up by commas so that it can be easily interpreted. Like, sure it could be three different statements. Whatever. That can pass. I'm not an idiot, and I can glean the context without a perfect delivery. But don't just string along the whole paragraph without so much as a denotation to a pause. It becomes very confusing to read. The purpose of the text is lost because I'm so busy trying to separate the syntax, that I can't pay attention to what it is trying to convey.
Also, when people have a run-on sentence that should, at the very least, be broken up by commas so that it can be easily interpreted. Like, sure it could be three different statements. Whatever. That can pass. I'm not an idiot, and I can glean the context without a perfect delivery. But don't just string along the whole paragraph without so much as a denotation to a pause. It becomes very confusing to read. The purpose of the text is lost because I'm so busy trying to separate the syntax, that I can't pay attention to what it is trying to convey.
Onmyoji
HanGuang-Jun
While we all can have some pet peeves and not everyone is always using perfect grammar it would still be advised to take personal discussions to Private Messages to not derail the thread.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Chordling
Bardbarian, the Divine Chordia of Concordia
Lose vs. Loose is an underrated bane of existence.
Skitts
The Green Skittles Bag
There is one thing that makes me feel terrible while reading.
Breath vs. breathe.
Every time, without fault, it makes me feel like I'm tripping over myself and slamming headfirst into concrete. While reading, my mind can anticipate what kind of word is going to come, or specifically which word, especially with the more common phrases. This pair reads so differently that I always require a moment to recover from the impact. I can understand if it's a typo, but too often it was in edited and published books.
Breath vs. breathe.
Every time, without fault, it makes me feel like I'm tripping over myself and slamming headfirst into concrete. While reading, my mind can anticipate what kind of word is going to come, or specifically which word, especially with the more common phrases. This pair reads so differently that I always require a moment to recover from the impact. I can understand if it's a typo, but too often it was in edited and published books.
Sara Sidereal
a bat
Stop using "sees" when you mean "causes" or "in which".
Also, conditional tense where it isn't needed.
Also, conditional tense where it isn't needed.
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Sara Sidereal
a bat
oh my god
why is this so hard
"its" is a pronoun
hers, his, theirs, ours, yours, its
"it's" is a contraction
he's, she's, it's
why is this so hard
"its" is a pronoun
hers, his, theirs, ours, yours, its
"it's" is a contraction
he's, she's, it's
yourlocal-eboyy
boots with the fur
A and an when referring to objects.
An person when it should be a.
A object when it should be an.
It’s small, but it drives me insane.
An person when it should be a.
A object when it should be an.
It’s small, but it drives me insane.
Crayons
Iconoclast
When people don't know the difference between words like shuttered/shuddered and don/dawn and so on. In UK English these words sound completely different, so when you have someone write "she shuttered with the cold", then it takes a moment to understand what the person is trying to convey. Kinda throws you out of the narrative a bit.
Also I never fail to find people who say "bare with me" utterly hilarious. XD
Also I never fail to find people who say "bare with me" utterly hilarious. XD
Sara Sidereal
a bat
Some adverbs are useful, like those that indicate temporal relationships. When authors say not to use adverbs, they're usually talking about "bad adverbs", or words that don't communicate any additional meaning.
Example:
