Sometimes, hearing ridiculous and blatant grammar, pronunciation and language mistakes could not only be annoying, but could also be nerve wrenching regardless of wherever or whomever it’s coming from.

Good enough, children are easy to correct, but with strangers, it could prove difficult. So, in such situations, we just hold our peace and allow the language peeves be.

Below are some examples of the irksome grammar used by people.
I feel badly. A person may write badly or dress badly but certainly not feel badly. Therefore, how you feel whether unwell or unhappy is bad and not badly.

Where are we going to? It is grammatically incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition because the ‘to’ at the tail of the sentence does not serve any purpose and it makes the sentence sound awkward.

Like, you know… This could pass for an uncomfortable pause such as ‘um’ in a conversation. Therefore, we should reduce its use to the barest minimum or completely eliminate it except in the context of making comparisons.

For all intensive purposes. The actual accepted phrase is ‘for all intents and purposes’ and not ‘for all intensive purposes’ because ‘intensive purposes’ does not make much sense.

I have less friends than before I wrote this list. ‘Less’ and ‘tricky’ could sometimes be tricky. For plural nouns that are countable, the word to use is ‘fewer’. But for things which cannot be counted or referred to by a singular noun, you use the word ‘less’.

I should of gotten the burger. Often times, you hear children say ‘should of’ which we can excuse because even though the correct thing to say is ‘should have’, the two phrases sound so similar.

Bring it with you when you go. You ‘bring’ something to a place but you ‘take’ something away. Therefore, it’s correct to say ‘bring it with you’

This one’s for my sister and I. This is another tricky one in which adults also make mistakes. For example, ‘my Dad and I went to the cinema’ is correct while’ I bought ice cream for my friend and I’ is incorrect. The way around it is to first of all take the other person out of the sentence and then determine which sounds right. ‘I bought ice cream for I’ or ‘I bought ice cream for me’.


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