And now it can be yours... You're welcome. And quite honestly, adults need this too. Lovely teacher friends, if you would like to use this, feel free, just give me a little kudos in your class. :)
Ms. Adelman’s Grammar Pet Peeves
Here is a list of my biggest pet peeves. They will serve you well throughout your life.
1.) It is GrammAr, NOT GrammEr.
2.) Do not fill empty space in your speech with “like.” Silence is golden; speech riddled with “likes” sounds unintelligent.
3.) To, Two, Too. I am going TO the store. I will buy TWO lemons. Would you like to come TOO? Do not confuse them.
4.) Their, There, They’re. The class has THEIR own motto. It is posted over THERE. They’re (They are) very proud of their motto.
5.) A lot. A lot is a lot of words. It is not one word, it is TWO.
6.) If someone asks you how you are doing, you are not doing good, you are doing WELL. Ice cream is good (adjective), and you are doing well (adverb). Ice cream is not well and you are NOT doing good. Unless you are doing charity work, which would be doing good. That would be using good as a noun.
7.) Who vs. Whom. The quick rule is, is if the answer to a question is “he” or “she,” then it is “Who.” For example, Who is responsible? HE/SHE/THEY is/are responsible. For Whom, the answer to the question would be “him” or “her.” For example, To whom should I send this? Send it to him/her/them.
8.) Affect vs Effect. The arrow affected the aardvark. The effect was bulging eyes. Affect= verb. Effect=noun.
9.) Lose v. loose. The Lakers will (hopefully) lose (fail) in the playoffs. The players’ shorts look loose (opposite of fitted). Very different.
10.) Irregardless is NOT a word, REGARDLESS of what you hear.
11.) Double negatives. You are not a country singer (and if you listen closely, it happens all the time!), so you may not never use no double negatives. You don’t tend to not sound very smart. One will do; more than that and it cancels itself out.
12.) Ending sentences with prepositions. Look up a list of commonly used prepositions. To put it simply- Do not end sentences with “dangling prepositions.” You may not get hired one day because the employer had an annoying grammar teacher (hi there!) who had them correct every dangling preposition.
13.) Using unnecessary words. Putting words like “super” and “very very” and “totally” in your writing seems like you are trying too hard. Plus, it is conversational. Avoid at all costs.
14.) Unnecessarily exclamation marks. You are allowed... 5 exclamation marks in your lifetime. In other words, use them as a last resort.
15.) Stuff. And things like that. Kinda. Sorta. No, no, no, no.
16.) It’s= It+is. Its= Possessive. It’s (it is) the most interesting part. Its (possessive, notice the lack of an apostrophe) parts are hard to buy online.
17.) “Could of” is just wrong. “Could have” actually makes sense.
18.) You cannot make nouns plural with apostrophes. In other words, I did not buy banana’s and carrot’s at the store. I bought bananas and carrots. Bananas and carrots cannot own anything... that I know of.
19.) It is ESpecially, not EXpecially. In speech and in writing, this is the way it is.
20.) And finally, text speak/writing. Nothing, and I mean nothing, comes across worse than saying “LOL” instead of laughing (true story), or writing “u” instead of “you,” or r, wat, cuz, ppl, plz. Yes, I know them all. No, you may not use them. No, you will never find a teacher who is okay with that. Just like if you have tattoos on your face, if you use text talk on your resume, you will not get hired. It is that serious.
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