The post in which I admit my grammatical flaws

In “Do you make these mistakes when you write?” on Copyblogger (a site I mentioned in my last post) Brian Clark highlights seven common mistakes that the masters Strunk and White and some of Copyblogger’s readers have highlighted:

1. Loose vs. lose
2. Me, myself, and I
3. Different than vs. different from
4. Improper use of the apostrophe (I’ve delved into that subject a few times)
5. Parallelism
6. i.e. vs. e.g.
7. Could of, would of, should of

My main problems concern “lead” vs. “led” and “their” vs. “there.” While I know the differences between them, it requires conscious thought to make sure I get them right. Usually good grammar comes easier to me.

What writing mistakes are you prone to make?

One Comment

Señor Rolando  on July 24th, 2007

Most common writing mistake? Typing as I talk. Or maybe that’s vice versa. Because a while ago and after some speech a friend of mine said: »Señor, sometimes you talk as lousy as you write your blog posts.«

Well, you know – shame on me.

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