Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if it's incorrect or not, but it sure grates on my nerves when people say "get a coffee" or "grab a coffee." It should be "get a cup of coffee" or "grab a cup of coffee."

Ok, that's overly pedantic imo. And I'm plenty pedantic as a rule!

No, this drives me crazy, too. Totally legitimate gripe.

Seems redundant. You don’t need to say “would you like a cup of coffee or a cup of tea?” When you can say “would you like coffee or tea?” It is known that you will get just a cup of a hot beverage.

DP here. It’s the “a” in “get a coffee” that grates IMO. You can just say get coffee. It also annoys me when people say “a Starbucks.”

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Would of, could of, should of. Lots of grammar stuff comes down to slang/dialects but these are just a common typo that irrationally bugs me.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the omitting prepositions thing a regionalism? (I.e., "I'm done work", "I'm done dinner" etc.) It sounds totally wrong to me, but I've never ever heard anyone talk like that.

Work's done
Dinner's done

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Going to hospital.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if it's incorrect or not, but it sure grates on my nerves when people say "get a coffee" or "grab a coffee." It should be "get a cup of coffee" or "grab a cup of coffee."

Ok, that's overly pedantic imo. And I'm plenty pedantic as a rule!

No, this drives me crazy, too. Totally legitimate gripe.

Seems redundant. You don’t need to say “would you like a cup of coffee or a cup of tea?” When you can say “would you like coffee or tea?” It is known that you will get just a cup of a hot beverage.

Original complainer here, It's adding the article "a" that makes it feel wrong. Your example does not include an article so it's not the same.

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Anonymous wrote:"On accident" instead of "by accident."

"On my period" kind of bugs me, though it probably shouldn't.

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Anonymous wrote:less and fewer
And not putting punctuation inside quotation marks such as:

He called this flower a "buttercup." <--- correct
He called this flower a buttercup". <----- inccorrect *unless you're from England.

Your pet peeve is something that is right both ways? And, to be clear, “our” way is inferior and makes less sense.

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"Bring this with you". It should be "take this with you".

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Anonymous wrote:Going to hospital.

That’s just British English. Same with “going to university.”

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if it's incorrect or not, but it sure grates on my nerves when people say "get a coffee" or "grab a coffee." It should be "get a cup of coffee" or "grab a cup of coffee."

Ok, that's overly pedantic imo. And I'm plenty pedantic as a rule!

No, this drives me crazy, too. Totally legitimate gripe.

Seems redundant. You don’t need to say “would you like a cup of coffee or a cup of tea?” When you can say “would you like coffee or tea?” It is known that you will get just a cup of a hot beverage.

Original complainer here, It's adding the article "a" that makes it feel wrong. Your example does not include an article so it's not the same.

It’s shortened for “I’m going to grab a coffee [drink]”. That covers all the many types of coffee - a latte isnt a cup of coffee, its a latte. A cup of coffee is a specific coffee drink.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if it's incorrect or not, but it sure grates on my nerves when people say "get a coffee" or "grab a coffee." It should be "get a cup of coffee" or "grab a cup of coffee."

Ok, that's overly pedantic imo. And I'm plenty pedantic as a rule!

No, this drives me crazy, too. Totally legitimate gripe.

Seems redundant. You don’t need to say “would you like a cup of coffee or a cup of tea?” When you can say “would you like coffee or tea?” It is known that you will get just a cup of a hot beverage.

DP here. It’s the “a” in “get a coffee” that grates IMO. You can just say get coffee. It also annoys me when people say “a Starbucks.”

Ah i see. It’s just a short cut if they are including the article but dropping the “cup of.” Not as egregious as some of these examples. Or as bad as “her and her sister are getting a coffee.”

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Anonymous wrote:"Bring this with you". It should be "take this with you".

Not always.

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People who don’t know how to use periods. I have many well educated friends (physicians!) who communicate in one? long run on sentence.

I had such a great day Bryce and I decided to go to the park to have a picnic and feed the birds we saw bluebirds hummingbirds and even a bald eagle

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Anonymous wrote:"On accident" instead of "by accident."

+1. Add to that “good on you” instead of “good for you.”

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Anonymous wrote:"Bring this with you". It should be "take this with you".

Depends