www.APlusArkansas.com

Www.APlusArkansas.com seeks to improve education in Arkansas. (A noble effort, indeed!) Ironically, there were at least two grammatical errors in their flyer. "Less" should be "Fewer."

There is a subject-verb agreement problem in the first bulleted line. The subject of the first sentence is "one." Its verb is "are." It is the prepositional phrase "in three" that causes the confusion. It should read, "Fewer than one in three Arkansas students is proficient...."

Threatening Misspellings

It should be spelled "threatening."

Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement

The antecedent of "they" is "person." Person is singular. They is plural. This is a disagreement. The sentence should read, "A developing story out of Little Rock Sunday night has one person claiming he was shot."

Downtown Hot Springs

Alert! Alert! There is a random apostrophe in "sundae's." Why no apostrophe in "smoothies"?

Hot Springs

Oh, Jahna's, the name of your city is Hot Springs; therefore, when making the name of your city possessive, you should add the apostrophe after the -s. (There are two schools of thought as to whether or not there should be an -s after the apostrophe: Hot Springs' or Hot Springs's)

Apostrophe, where are you?

There should be an apostrophe in the title: "6 Things You Can Do To Get a Better Night's Sleep Tonight."

Their/There

There are two problems with the use of the word "there" in this post. First, the antecedent for the word is "parent." Parent is singular, meaning that the pronoun used in its place should also be singular. Second, the speaker intends to use the gender neutral (but plural) word "their." In place of "there" the speaker should have used "his" or "her." Better yet, is the option to change "parent" to "parents." Then, "their" will work.

DeVito's Apostrophe Catastrophe

Thanks to Robin for this one. The apostrophe in the name of the restaurant is correct. The apostrophes in the red headings are not correct. The writer intended to show that there are multiple appetizers, Italian dinners, and salad entrees.

Fair Grammar

Thanks to Jennifer F. for this one that she found at a fair. Two errors plague this sign. The sign should read, "Mom and Dad Can Ride, Too. Must Have Their Own Tickets."

Ahh, me! "The boys are very excepting..." means that the boys leave her out, which seems to be the opposite of what the article says. The boys are very accepting. If they make her "feel apart," that means they make her feel separate. Surely, the intended meaning is that they make her feel a part. These errors are the fault of the writer, not the speaker.

Notice the wrong use of their/there.

This is from the Clinton Library. Why no apostrophe?

I quit buying gas from Big Red stores about a year ago when I bought a bad tank of gas from them, and they wouldn't pay for the repairs; I do miss the fertile ground for grammar mistakes, though. Here the apostrophe after sundae is incorrect. The scoop of orange sherbet was yummy.