Visit: 20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes
Author: Bunny on 09:59am Tue, Aug 14, 2012
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I?ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it?s a job that?s come with more frustration than reward. If there?s one thing I am grateful for ? and it sure isn?t the pay ? it?s that my work has allowed endless time to hone my craft to Louis Skolnick levels of grammar geekery.

As someone who slings red ink for a living, let me tell you: grammar is an ultra-micro component in the larger picture; it lies somewhere in the final steps of the editing trail; and as such it?s an overrated quasi-irrelevancy in the creative process, perpetuated into importance primarily by bitter nerds who accumulate tweed jackets and crippling inferiority complexes. But experience has also taught me that readers, for better or worse, will approach your work with a jaundiced eye and an itch to judge. While your grammar shouldn?t be a reflection of your creative powers or writing abilities, let?s face it ? it usually is.

Below are 20 common grammar mistakes I see routinely, not only in editorial queries and submissions, but in print: in HR manuals, blogs, magazines, newspapers, trade journals, and even best selling novels. If it makes you feel any better, I?ve made each of these mistakes a hundred times, and I know some of the best authors in history have lived to see these very toadstools appear in print. Let's hope you can learn from some of their more famous mistakes...

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