There, Their, They're ..

[CXC3000]

To summarise then, these seem to be the most misused terms:

 

- there, their, they’re

- to & too

- loose & lose

- your & you’re

- should have / should of

- could have / could of

- would have / would of

- of & off

- been & being

- whether & weather

- where, wear & were

- were & we’re

- wood & would

 

Any others …?

 

Who's and whose.

[Rich]

Of and off.

[shanes teeth]

Tautology makes me raving mad.

[CXC3000]

Of and off.

 

Or usually 'have' and 'of'.

 

Really gets to me

[Ms Macbeth]

Back to there, their, they're. A small car park I pass most days used to have a hand-painted sign at the entrance:

 

"Customers cars are left at they,re own risk"

 

Not only the wrong 'their', but also a comma instead of an apostrophe.

 

I rather liked that sign, with all its faults. It made me chuckle. Pity it's no longer there.

 

Reminds me of the old greengrocers' signs, like 'potato's' and once I even saw 'leak's'.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

Back to there, their, they're. A small car park I pass most days used to have a hand-painted sign at the entrance:

 

"Customers cars are left at they,re own risk"

 

Not only the wrong 'their', but also a comma instead of an apostrophe.

 

I rather liked that sign, with all its faults. It made me chuckle. Pity it's no longer there.

More to the point: the sign means that cars are left at the cars' own risk. Sentence subject: cars.

It ought to read, "Customers leave cars at their own risk". Sentence subject: customers.

[willybite]

More to the point: the sign means that cars are left at the cars' own risk. Sentence subject: cars.

It ought to read, "Customers leave cars at their own risk". Sentence subject: customers.

 

hiya i often think of how kids would have coped in the 20s/-50s at school in the 20s my mum would tell of any left handed child were made to write with their right hand, how would the teachers today even understand the way we spoke when we first started school, like int,moant,waynt, for is'nt,must'nt,will not, and every verse was like this,

[Halibut]

I find the use of the comma in place of the apostrophe (as noted in horribleblobs post quoted further up this page) particularly ghastly - as in 'There,s nothing wrong with my punctuation'. There's a paticular Forummer for whom it has become something of a trademark.

[some guy]

Take it from a 17-year-old. It is a growing concern. I strive to make sure I use correct grammar, wherever it is I may be. My younger sister mocks me for being "sad" and she says that "no-one cares".

[laineyiow]

Take it from a 17-year-old. It is a growing concern. I strive to make sure I use correct grammar, wherever it is I may be. My younger sister mocks me for being "sad" and she says that "no-one cares".

 

Maybe when she starts applying for jobs and doesn't get even an interview she may then realise that grammar and correct spellings are important.