Thursday, January 12, 2012
A field day for Grammar Police
As if the idea of emoticons on Wikipedia wasn't bad enough, this entry has several grammatical errors. While the headings both demand attention, the submitter chose to focus on the wording of "Anne's brieft history," which refers to Anne Frank being 10 when the Nazis had "tooken" over. "Tooken" is not a word, it should be "taken." Take is an irregular verb.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Who Doesn't Know How to Spell 'Supplies'?
Sam's doesn't, that's who! Instead of "Supplis," it should read "Supplies." Couldn't they just have checked the aisle endcap sign? Even Spellcheck could have caught this one!
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Lordy, Lordy!
For starters, let's put a comma between 'Lordy Lordy,' as it is repeated multiple times. Now that we've got that straightened out, let's look at the second line, where a flagrant error is. 'Look whose 40' should read 'Look who's 40.' 'Whose' is possessive, but there is nothing to possess here.
Submitted by an 8th grader
"Put your comma in it!"
Instead of just putting your heart in it, put your comma in it... 'it' being your quotation marks. In most cases, punctuation marks need to go INSIDE the quotation marks. This is almost always the case with periods and commas. And though I'm not familiar with the subject of this poem, I think the poet may mean 'bawl,' or to cry, instead of 'ball'?
Submitted by a 7th grader
Submitted by a 7th grader
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Lost in Translation?
This restaurant is advertising items that are not yet on the menu, and therefore the items are "Comein Soon," according to them. What they should say is that the items are "Coming Soon."
Submitted by an 8th grader
Burger King's making a big profit!
I'm sure we've all heard our grandparents wax on about the good ol' days, when movies were a dime and gas was well under a dollar. But this Burger King sign shows prices are rising out of control! Three hundred dollars for two Whoppers? Unless.... maybe they forgot to put a period between the three and the first zero? In that case, they should have left off the two zeroes and just said $3.
Submitted by an 8th grader
Submitted by an 8th grader
This handwritten sign has two errors, despite the amazingly neat handwriting. Can you spot them? First of all, this restaurant will be "close" on Sunday. They meant to say 'closed,' but 'close' changes the meaning entirely. Are they moving the restaurant close that Sunday?
Also, they advertise that they will take 'order' over $100. They should make that plural, and take 'orders' over $100. Will they only take one order? Hm.
Submitted by an 8th grader
Also, they advertise that they will take 'order' over $100. They should make that plural, and take 'orders' over $100. Will they only take one order? Hm.
Submitted by an 8th grader
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