Thursday, November 25, 2010

An apostrophe is needed in week's.

After reading this story on KARK's site, I question the author's competency. The most glaring mistakes are the misuse of it's/its and peek/peak.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

I was always taught that towards was incorrect. After some research, I have found conflicting information, but Grammar Girl and others say that both toward and towards are correct. Towards is favored in British English, toward in American English. It seems that toward is more correct, if there is such a thing as being more correct. I'd like to go back and talk to a few teachers/professors who corrected my use of towards. The s seems unnecessary to me.

Two mistakes plague this slide from a Common Core webinar. There should be a comma after "In college," and "substantially more that what" should be "substantially more than what." 

The comma after attentive is unnecessary and confusing. Such irony exists in (and hypocrisy exists in the fact that I corrected a mistake in this post) the fact that this is from a webinar about Common Core. 

The quotation marks are unnecessary.

Saturday, November 06, 2010

"MENS" should be written "MEN'S." Since men is plural without the s and men possess the items, an apostrophe is necessary.

Another Holiday House Mistake

I accidentally captured the image of this woman's head in the picture. I was taking the picture on the sly so as not to incur the wrath of the booth owner. The apostrophes are unnecessary. 

Thanks to Pat for this one. Kudos to the author of this sign for correct apostrophe use; however, "esculator" should be "escalator."

Thursday, October 28, 2010

"Has ran" should be "has run." One would have to have memorized a chart of information in order to know this. (Memorization is a bad word, you know.) This is from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. It was written this way in the print edition, too. Thanks to Tracie for this one.

It should be awning.

A student found this error in Riordan's book The Lost Hero. The word "though" should be "through."

Sunday, October 24, 2010