Your single biggest grammar pet peeve?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a completely full flight."

As opposed to...an incompletely full flight? A plane is either full or not full. ARGH.

You can have a very full flight, or a moderately full flight. It’s not a binary, I think you’re wrong on this one.

Right, you could have a 1/3rd full flight, half full flight, completely full flight. While I agree, full flight is more concise, completely full flight, in the context of airline employees adds a level of detail and certainty around the number of available seats and it’s usually said in the context of overhead bin space. “Completely” seems to emphasize that the bins are going to fill up before the seats.

[Anonymous]

Irregardless
Anyways

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Irregardless
Anyways

Irregardless is just not a word

Anyways is more of a colloquial expression

[Anonymous]

It used to be "could care less." That still grates on me but honestly everyone gets it wrong so I'm so tired of being annoyed by it. Now it's further/farther.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:less/fewer
Oxford commas (keep the comma! It changes the meaning of the whole sentence!)

I know the rule for she/her vs. him/her, but sometimes slip up in casual conversation. I didn't learn it correctly growing up and do my best.

Let's eat, Grandma
Let's eat Grandma
Commas save lives

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Use of ‘less’ when it should be ‘fewer’. Like nails on a chalkboard to me.

And grocery stores get this wrong ALL THE TIME!

[Anonymous]

people that vs people who (and other instances of the same issue, e.g., child that, teacher that, plumbers that...)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Use of ‘less’ when it should be ‘fewer’. Like nails on a chalkboard to me.

And grocery stores get this wrong ALL THE TIME!

+1

[Anonymous]

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.

+1

[Anonymous]

People who drive me cray cray with grammar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saying "on tomorrow"

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who use "and I" incorrectly and it should be "and me" but they're being pretentious

And they don't realize that they are making themselves sound like idiots. It's like people are afraid of using the word me.

I find that people who don't understand how grammar works do this a lot. They think saying "I" sounds smarter, so they always say that. They think saying "well" is always right, when it's really only when being used as an adverb - how are you doing? I am doing well. How are you feeling? I am feeling well. Nope! This time it's good because it's an adjective, not an adverb. Same with further - it sounds "fancier" than farther, but people use it wrong all the time, and the right word is usually farther.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it "fewer" than five widgets, or "less than" five widgets?

Which is correct.

I know I is fewer widgets, it I the number that throws me.

Fewer if you can count it. Less if you can't.

Fewer than five widgets. 10 items or fewer. She got fewer candy bars this Halloween.

There is less water in the ocean now than in 2010. (Technically you could count/measure it but really you can't.) She has less patience for silliness today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a completely full flight."

As opposed to...an incompletely full flight? A plane is either full or not full. ARGH.

You can have a very full flight, or a moderately full flight. It’s not a binary, I think you’re wrong on this one.

Either every seat is taken or it's not. I am correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who use "and I" incorrectly and it should be "and me" but they're being pretentious

And they don't realize that they are making themselves sound like idiots. It's like people are afraid of using the word me.

Funny but because of a former supervisor who was a grammar nazi, I am afraid of using the word "that." She felt like the word was overused, hated it, and would mark up files for corrections if we used it too much. Now, I am hyper aware to not use it more than once in a sentence.

Same! My old boss hated it and I have to say, now I notice how overused and unnecessary it is and I cut it out all the time.