Top 10 Grammar Pet Peeves
Seen here.
- It's "I couldn't care less." "I could care less" means that you actually do care.
- An apostrophe is never used to form a plural.
- "Literally" means it actually happened, not that it figuratively happened.
- "Loose" and "lose" are two different words.
- "Your" and "you're" are also two different words.
- "Their," "there" and "they're" are actually three different words.
- "Nonplus" does not mean what you think it means.
- "Affect" is a verb. "Effect" is a noun.
- "It's" is short for "it is" and "its" means "belonging to it."
- "Irregardless" is not a word.
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