Mocking Poor Grammar
Since 2007
A noun that is formed from a verb and which describes an action. In English it ends in -ing, eg 'the baking of bread' and 'Smoking damages your health'.
Here’s a cracker sent in by Kat Harbourne.
Actual plurals are often tricky to get right, so why bother? Just stick to the single form and use an apostrophe – that’ll be fine. However, in this example, at least the apostrophe abuse is consistent in its application. As Kat points out, it’s the classic Capitalisation Of Every Single Word Just Because It’s A Sign that irritates.
To avoid embarrassment and accidentally insulting the blushing bride to be, it is important to understand the difference between bridal and bridle.
He should be careful, I hear she kicks like a mule.
Also, writing the whole invitation in inconsistent Title Case makes it hard to read. I particularly hate the following “sentence”.
And put, Aprils Name on it.
Shall we count the errors together? Fragment, unnecessary capitalisation, unnecessary comma, missing possessive apostrophe; I make that four errors in six words. Not bad!
Thanks to Alison for pointing this photo out to us. For more wedding-related fun, have a rummage around wedinator.com.
What would Diana say?
Daily Mail: Apostrophe Fail, originally uploaded by Clive Andrews.
Do they not know that the misuse of apostrophes may lead to cancer?
While I’m bashing that horrid rag, I’d like to show you this video from the wonderful Dan and Dan.
It's always a delight when an establishment is unswervingly dedicated to getting things wrong. Further to a previous post about rampant quotation mark abuse at a Nottingham furniture shop, GrammarBlog's Nottingham correspondent Samantha Moran has spotted another case of WRONG at the very same shop....
Seen on the ever brilliant Failblog. My finding of this picture (yep, that was a gerund correctly preceded by the genitive pronoun, thanks ...
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