hunsicker

Number 1: using of where have or 've should be used.
Example: I should of known that.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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Manny Laureano

Okay, try these:

"A myriad of people were asked to sign up."

Myriad is not a noun, it's an adjective. You would say instead, "Myriad people were asked to sign up." Use it like you use the word many.

"They asked him and I to sign up."

Use me instead of I. If you drop the words "him and" you'll see why.



"They're looking for people there to sign up for their organization".



"I signed up for free!"

For free what, exactly?

"I signed up free of charge!"



"I'm going to sign up whether the weather's good or bad!"



"Hopefully, I'll sign up today."

No.

"I'll sign up today, I hope."


ML

Brekelefuw

Really?
I never knew that. I think every time I have heard 'myriad' in a sentence it has been used incorrectly.



Actually I just looked it up on Wikipedia (take it's credibility whichever way you want,) and they say

In English, the term "myriad" is most commonly used to refer to a large number of an unspecified size. In this way "myriad" can be used as either a noun or an adjective. Thus both "there are myriad people outside" and "There is a myriad of people outside" are correct.

Merriam-Webster notes, "Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective.... however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it."[1]


My biggest pet peeve is when people say Nucular instead of Nuclear. I also do a double take when people say "for all intensive purposes." Those drive me crazy.

hunsicker

You've got me on that one so far. I can't see what's wrong with it, other than the use of the indicative 's rather than the subjunctive be. And hardly anyone does otherwise these days. Still looking at it.....

Here's one:

Their going to be they're with there horns. (Fingernails on a chalk board.)

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hunsicker

That reminds me:

Many folks use I could care less where they should use I couldn't care less, with the sense "I care so little that it would not be possible for me to care less that I do." I flinch every time I hear or see that one without the "not".

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Pedal C

"I could care less" drives me crazy! AAHHH!! It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who notices that.

My high school yearbook used the theme "Anyway you look it." They DID NOT use "ANY WAY you look at it" which would have made at least a small amount of sense. The little write-ups would go something like "Even though the football team didn't win any games this year, they were never shut out, so anyway you look at it, the year was a success." I liked to imagine a cheerleader reading it out loud "So...anyway...you look at it...and the year was a success!" It still makes me laugh!

Jason.

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Richard Oliver

I want to play. But I won't because I taught college English.

Grammarians Forward Ho!

Richard

Solar Bell

Who, I?

-cw-

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trumpetmike

I will also refrain from joining this discussion - it could be too easy

tpter1

Misuse of the apostrophe, as in using it for a plural. "Theres too many car's in that yard."

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