I hate bad grammar. I am a user of multiple online message boards and nothing irritates me more than how poorly people use the English language. I am not perfect and I acknowledge that I make mistakes. However, some people should go back to school. Here are some grammar errors that make me angry:
1. THEIR, THERE AND THEY’RE. These are three different words with three distinct meanings. Sure, they are homonyms, but that doesn’t mean that people should ignore the fact that the next sentence in this paragraph is disgraceful. “There going to the proctologist over their on 10th street to talk about they’re itchy anus.”
2. ARE AND OUR. This guy I know always talks to me online and says things like, “Are team is going to win tonight!!” As soon as I see this I end the conversation.
3. AN BEFORE HISTORIC. In modern English we pronounce the “H” in historic. Therefore, when we talk about history, we should be saying “a historic event”. It drives me crazy when national publications have headlines that say, “TODAY, AN HISTORIC EVENT TOOK PLACE”. Maybe centuries ago this was correct. English people used to probably refer to the king as Enry the 8th. However, we do not talk like this anymore. The language has evolved for the better. Nobody would ever say, “I signed up for AN HISTORY CLASS today. I also want to wish you AN HAPPY HOLIDAYS!”
4. YOUR AND YOU’RE. This is similar to the first example but it makes me just as mad.
5. RUN ON SENTENCES. You know what is really annoying well let me tell you what is really annoying I think it sucks when people do not know how to add periods and commas to what they type online and it is just so bad and makes me so mad and their sentences are all strung together incoherently and it makes me want to blow them up.
Rant over.





