30 Grammar Rules That Many People Fail To Use Correctly, As Pointed Out By Members Of This Online Group

The phrase “I couldn’t care less”

Most Americans I’ve heard say, “I could care less”. Like cmon you’re using that all wrong!!

Incredibly: should’ve. I’ve seen a ton of people write “should of” when they mean should’ve (as in should have) and in my opinion that’s worse than confusing “then/than”.

The word loose. They mistake it for lose

The they're/there/their and to/too/two. It's a pet peeve of mine when people say "This is to boring." In any situation when they use the wrong "to." My mates had taken University-level English classes in highschool yet they still make the "there" or "to" mistakes, and it makes my blood boil.

Less vs. fewer. Less is for uncountable nouns: you have less time, less pain, less work to do. Fewer is for countable nouns: you have fewer apples, fewer cans of soup, fewer distractions. People usually use less when they should use fewer; it rarely happens the other way around. People will say "there are less cars on the road," but they probably won't say "there is fewer traffic." There is a related problem with much vs. many. To be fair, what is countable and uncountable can get complicated, and it's easy to make mistakes (I do it too). You can't have fewer money, you can only have fewer dollars and cents (money, amusingly, is uncountable). You can't have fewer pizza, but you can have fewer pizzas (pluralization of something uncountable makes it countable).

The pedal next to the gas is not the break pedal

I'm gonna go get an expresso and excetera.

Your/You’re.

Than/then

Apostrophes.

grumpyoldmanBrad said:
Affect/Effect

Daddict replied:
It's so easy.

Affect is a verb. Except when it's a noun.

Effect is a noun. Except when it's a verb.

No idea why people mix these up.

APART

If you participated in something you were “a part” of it. If you are “apart” from something or someone you are deliberately not a part.

"Anyways" the correct word is "anyway". Anyway already denotes any possible way. Adding an S does nothing other than show your ignorance.

Literally

The word “cavalry.” People often say “Calvary” instead.

Same with saying “payed” instead of “paid”. This one drives me insane the most.

*exspecially

breath, breathe, and breathing. Makes me wanna kill someone more than I already do.

AtomBombBaby42042 said:
Woman/women!

smooshf**kie replied:
Right! But people don't get man/men wrong.

Why is it that people can tell the difference between man/men but not woman/women?

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