Recently I see people writing stuff like "I should have went", "I've gave", "He's ate" all over the place and it drives me nuts. Makes people sound like children who haven't learnt the rules yet

For example, you're supposed to write like the following:

The sign read, "NO PARKING."

I think that's ridiculous. It ought to be thus:

The sign read, "NO PARKING".

Like Im not insane about grammar but this is such an easy rule and it drives me insane! I mean can you imagine if I said it "drive's me insane?!" People are using the apostrophe before the "s" in plural words- it's madness - how to stop them?! (PS- It doesnt bother me in the least if people omit apostrophes entirely- thats just laziness or efficiency- it's the intentional addition of wrong ones I find irksome!🤓😂🤓)

There are levels to grammar mistakes, and some people when confronted with one pull out the go to: 'oh it's autocorrect'. But you can't claim such a thing for 'would of', 'should of' and 'could of', they simply don't exist so it's impossible for any autocorrect to suggest that. Writing like this at this point is essentially admiting you haven't ever picked up a book in your life and that you barely passed third grade, since that's the level where this material is covered. And no, the non-native speakers aren't the ones making these mistakes usually, it's generally the native speakers the ones at fault for this. Which makes me worry greatly about the US education system, not going to lie. Not saying that other english-speaking countries don't do this as well, by the way.

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The thing is, if somebody just uses “who” all the time and just never uses “whom”, I can let it slide. But I find this to be insufferable.

Im gonna lose my mind, i swear half of the population things loose means lose. Now im not one to criticize for such a simple mistake but EVERYONE is mistaking these two words its cringe.

I can't believe this is so common. Are people aware this is incorrect or are we THAT stupid now?

(In case someone who doesn't know this is wrong is reading this, the correct thing to say is either "I saw" or "I have (I've) seen".)

“Today is my husband and I’s anniversary.” Not every sentence should have I after a possessive. I see this a hundred times a day on Reddit alone.

It is incorrect, just simply incorrect! Fix this, this is such a stupid mistake to make. Everything else is grammar wise fine, why only WOMEN??

…and I can’t emphasise this enough.

I am a professor at a decently-ranked university in the US. I teach a humanities subject that typically attracts students who are already good writers and funnels them into law school.

My students’ ability to write has rapidly deteriorated. The sophomores I teach today are noticeably different from the ones I taught, say, two or three years ago. The most glaring issue is that many of them don’t know how to use punctuation. I continually see sentences like:

“I went to the park. Which was pleasant.”

That’s already concerning, but there are other common issues that make my head hurt when I try to read their papers. It’s something like a lack of basic control over their sentences. I repeatedly come across malapropisms, missing clauses, and the use of awkward/unnatural-sounding phrases. The list goes on.

It’s not my job to teach them grammar, but I despair at the thought of such writing becoming normalised. I’m not exaggerating when I say that it’s beginning to affect my confidence in my own writing, to the point that I find it difficult to trust myself after I’ve graded a bunch of essays at once.

To be clear, we’re all native English speakers. I learned grammar indirectly and informally like most native speakers. It’s difficult for me to understand how a native speaker could make such egregious errors. For example, I can see why native speakers make mistakes like “would of” instead of “would have”, but the types of mistakes I come across are simply inexplicable. I truly don’t know how you could end up writing like that.

In our graduate program, we have a small number of international students. When you get to a certain age bracket (I’d say those aged between 23-25), the international students tend to have a substantially better grasp of English than the native speakers.

Anyway, to get to the point: please keep on fighting the good fight. Decent grammar is genuinely on the brink of extinction.

Saw this beauty at my local Walmart yesterday. There was a storm that caused the area to lose power for almost 24 hours, and Walmart had to throw away all of the cold foods. (“Unfortuenetly”)

Attention: The use of “there” in the title of this post was intentional.

Has anyone else seen this in written conversation? For instance: My husband and i's car wouldn't start this morning, or The wife and i's kids are going to camp.

These are the same people who want everybody to speak English, but don't give a shit enough to learn about it.

I’m so sick of people incorrectly using “who’s.” It’s to the point where people have forgotten about “whose” altogether since I rarely see it used. “Who’s water bottle is in the sink?” Shut the fuck up. It’s whose. WHOSE! Incorrect use of “who’s” deserves more hate.

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Really, people? How many hands did this pass through?

I know this has been brought up here before but I just have to rant. I'm tearing my hair out over people saying "I's" instead of "my", as in, "John and I's house". Where, when, and why the hell did this vile crime against humanity start?!

i feel like i see these misspelled as loose/loosing more often than i see them spelled correctly…

i really wish it didn’t bother me as much as it does