Friday, March 27, 2015

Strange Contraption or Strange Grammar?

This is so poorly worded that it appears to say that the goal needs a bolt and a trampoline frame. That must be a strange-looking goal. 😀

Less and Fewer

When something can be counted, it is proper to use the word fewer. When writing or talking about something that cannot be counted, one should use the word less. For example, there seems to be less water for the team's practice; therefore, it is fortunate that there are fewer girls at today's practice. 

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Fox16 Begings




Spelling lessons beging tomorrow. Thanks, Robin. 

A Collection


Proofread those math problems.

Perhaps the editor/proofreader should be suspended. 
This headline is all wrong. Was the motorcycle dead? Was the driver dead while driving? I'd imply that he died in the crash. 

Thanks to Michelle for this one. 

Spelling is not one of their specialties. 

The most obvious error is the "that the no children" part. To say that an accident happened near I-30 is vague. I-30 runs across the state of Arkansas. 


The name of the county is spelled two different ways. 



1. This is an unusual error. Normally, your/you're errors occur when a person means you are (you're) and writes your.  In this case, the opposite is true. It should be your. 
"There" represents "spouse." (That's called an antecedent.) "Spouse" is singular; therefore, the pronoun 

ISO Someone


Without totally rewriting this, it can best be improved as follows:
If someone asks me with whom I want to be, I will simply say, "Someone who can understand that I'm not perfect and will never leave me because of someone else."
The author of this graphic may want to add that she wants to be with someone who has great tolerance for errors in grammar. 


Tuesday, March 03, 2015

What?

That whole last sentence is a disaster. The first error is an apostrophe error.