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20 Writing Mistakes Even Native Speakers Make (Infographic)

by JENNIFER FROST on JULY 27, 2016
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 Ross Craig
No prepositions at the end of a sentence? Hmmm, up with this I will not put.
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Carol Campbell Anderson

Shouldn't that be attributed to W. Churchill?
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Caroline Peacock
Should it? No sure - but here's another offering for preposition lovers:

I lately lost a preposition. It lurked, I thought, beneath my chair

So angrily I cried "Perdition! Come up from out of in under there!"
Correctness is my 'vade mecum' and straggling phrases I abhor...
And yet I wondered what should he come up from out of in under for?

(favourite rhyme of my late father - but I don't know where he got it, I'm afraid)
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Donald Wilms
At the risk of sounding like a smarty pants, I say be careful with #'s 11, 12, 13, and 15. #11 is only partially
correct: it ignores traditional punctuation rules for forming possessives of letters and numbers and cites
only the modern rules (see Warriner 4th Course, 1986, p. 739). (Note my use of 's to make the # plural in
the first sentence above.) #12 is just wrong: first, it is not incorrect to end a sentence in a preposition as
long as the object of that preposition is in the sentence somewhere (although it might sound less formal);
second, the example used ends in a preposition that has no use as there is no object of that preposition.
#13, though correct, is not explained well. Words change as they way we speak them changes, so in #15,
though irregardless is a non-standard word, it is impossible to say that it won't someday be considered
standard. The word valid is inappropriate here.
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Marni Pilafian
Excuse me, Mr. Wilms, you taught a good lesson here until you arrived at "Words change as
'they' way we speak them changes..."
We all need to proofread twice.
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Peter Craw
Yes, you do sound like a smarty-pants(sp), (hyphenated or not?), but that is not a bad thing. I am
very relieved to see confirmation that "irregardless" IS NOT A WORD! thank you! I was going to
write something pithy like, " I seen this Pinterest thing, me, about how to write good..." but I just
couldn't do it. Mr Saunders would spin in his grave. (Honors English classes, late sixties.)
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Janina Furmanik
Boy, have you ever nailed it! Thanks for puttiing it all out in one lesson, so to say. I see these mistakes all
over the place, whether native or non-native speakers. I will systematically use these examples in my ESL
courses. Very helpful, indeed.
Like · Reply · 10 · 1y

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