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Certain grammar mistakes drive me crazy:
I'm also not a big fan of apostrophes to indicate plural - like referring to Save The Dates as STD's.
How about you? What are your grammar pet peeves?
I also hate the use apostrophes for plural things and for dates!
I HATE when people say they could care less. It should be I couldn't care less.
Also irregardless drives me nuts.
Guess that comes from having a degree in Journalism - I copy edit everything!
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Misuse of reflexive pronoun! (Just ask myself for more information! You can see Mary or myself afterwards!)
I usually ignore grammar errors on messageboards, but that one peeves me. I see it all the time at work.
I REALLY hate it when people mix up nominative and objective pronouns! I know that it's very common now to say "Here is a picture of Sally and I." But it's just plain wrong! Erg!
OK, rant over. :)
I agree with all of you on the above.
I tend to not care too much on message boards but in emails from anyone that makes more money than me....drives me nuts!!!
My skin crawls everytime I get an email from someone that signs off as their first initial or first and last initial, especially if their first name has five letter! It just says to me that they don't think I am important enough for them to take the care to capitalize the first letter of their name and then type out the remaining letters of their name. I am not asking for first and last names in full, just don't be that lazy. Better yet, save me the trouble from having to read your miniature initials and just don't sign at all. I have your email address. you're not ee cummings and tons of other people have thought it clever to be their initials in lower letters.
Its/It's, Your/You're, They're/Their/There, Accept/Except. Those drive me nuts. I don't mind a typo or an error here or there every once in a while, but when someone constantly and consistently writes using the wrong word it annoys me. Especially accept/except. They don't even sound alike, at least to me. How can they be confused?
"Supposivly" instead of "supposedly". An old coworker of mine said it constantly - and I corrected him constantly - but he still said it (I think to spite me!)
Expresso instead of Espresso.
Their instead of there (or vice versa).
Libary instead of library.
I could go on, and on - but I won't! 
Ah good one Azula! In a similar vein, I always notice insure/ensure and affect/effect.
It takes me ten minutes every time I post this thread, b/c I'm so worried about messing up my grammar!
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Ending sentences with prepositions! I really *couldn't care less* on message boards or emails, but people do it for work ALL THE TIME. For official publications! President Obama's campaign slogan "Change we can believe in" drove me crazy every time (even though I still voted for him).
There's nothing wrong with ending a sentence in a preposition! Grammarians of old instituted this rule based on the grammatical structure of Latin--in Latin, it makes no sense to end a sentence in a preposition. For some reason, high school English teachers love to forbid us from doing this, even though it is perfectly logical to end a sentence with a preposition in English!
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I CANNOT stand when people say the word "nother", as in "that's a whole nother issue". It's not nother! It's "that's a whole OTHER issue"
Everyone except my mom, who agrees with me, thinks I am crazy and keep trying to prove that "nother" is a word. It's not a word, it's just improper English.
I'm with you, Mr. Bee. Posting on these threads makes me so nervous!
I actually felt like a bit of a grammar nerd today. I reviewed an old handbook for our students and the grammar was absolutely horrific. I think the person who wrote it had a fear of commas!
I get very annoyed with they're/their/there, you're/your, and it's/its. It either makes me think a) this person has a college degree??? in communications????; or b) this person is lazy and doesn't care.
I also get annoyed with "me and Joe went to the store" or "Joe and me went to the store." I don't know the technical name for these examples but I know they're wrong!
As for ending sentences with prepositions, I must be old school because I can't stand it when people end sentences with "at." Where's your wedding at? So wrong!
With my luck, I probably just typed something wrong or inadvertently ended a sentence with a preposition. 
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Oh yes! Great topic :)
1. "definately" definitely
2. "halarious" hilarious
3. "And then I says to him..."
4. Seen versus saw
Yesyesyes: "I saw that movie"
Nonono: "I seen that movie"
Okay, my chest is tight... time for deep breathing & meditation.
Oh I forgot one! What about "would of" versus "would've"...
@RecessionistaBride: "Seen" is one of my biggest pet peeves! Unfortunately for me, it is very common in my area!
Also, "pacific" instead of "specific" gets to me.
Sometimes I slip when I'm typing (but I agree with all the posts above)
However my HANDS DOWN BIGGEST grammer pet peeve is when people say "I graduated highschool". Umm, no you didn't. You graduate FROM high school. Did you "graduated Harvard"? No, you graduated FROM Harvard. Sorry, but that one REALLY irks me.
I would have to say that unnecessary commas are my biggest pet peeve. A reporter for one of the newspapers I edit throws in extra commas all the time. It makes me want to smack my head against the keyboard!
The other one I hate is disagreement between subjects and verbs: "Each of the items are $5" instead of "Each of the items is $5."
Prounouns disagreement gets me, too: "A good student turns their paper in on time," when the sentence should read "A good student turns in his or her paper on time."
I don't know what all you're peoples problem is. Theirs something wrong if you don't have anything better to do than critique my grammar. Its fine as it is.
"alot" vs "a lot"--- it's TWO WORDS!!!
"suposably"... just makes me want to shout, "There's no 'b' in it!!!"
I agree with the above posters and the homophone confusion- there/their/they're, etc.
To, Too, Two! People mix those up all the time.
This isn't a grammar one, but it's funny how many spellings of 'sequins' exist on the boards. :)
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Agree with all of the above - with special mention for "seen". It is SAW people!
Oh and double negatives - Cuz if you ain't got none, then you must have some.
Haha, this is funny. I have noticed the stationery thing around here, b/c there's a lot of talk about stationery!
To follow up on the graduation part.... You'd actually say, "I was graduated from high school." My parents used to correct my friends all the time. MY dad still corrects us kids if we use a preposition at the end of a sentence. When we lived in the midwest, everyone said, "Do you wanna come with?" and "Where'd you get that at?" and it drove my parents crazy. Now we all live in MA and I never hear anyone say that.
Another difference I notice is that around here (in MA), people say the name of the street like, "Main Street" or "South Avenue" whereas in the midwest people just said, "Main" and "South" completely disregarding the rest of the streets' names!! I guess that's not really a grammar thing, but it's interesting.
I have to admit that my grammar is not the best. I have problems with misplaced commas all the time and it isn't because I am lazy either or don't care. I just have never been able to get it right all the time. I go over my sentences often to make sure I am doing it right but sometimes I just don't know.
I am with you all on the its/it's, their/there, and lose/loose but I do occasionally get the effect/affect mixed up.
I know this isn't exactly grammar but I believe myself to be a great speller. This can drive me crazy. But since I am fast with the keyboard, I know mistakes can happen.
We'll for well. Its for It's. Not using commas where they should be, mispelling basic words, run on sentences, leaving out pronouns...the list goes on and on, folks.
My photographer's website is chock full of these. And I'm just DYING to send her an anonymous email and let her know how it makes her look! Seriously, there are so many mispelled words on her website. Especially on a professional website, I think you should be on top of your English! But in general, stuff like this drives me nuts unless it's in the context of posts, text messages, etc, which are very flow-from-the-brain kind of things.
Basically anything that makes you sounds like a hillbilly or completely uneducated drives me insane! Although I am guilty of it occassionall, I will admit.
I am in totally agreement on all of the errors. I must confess that I am guilty of some of them. 
My biggest pet peeve is spelling! That's what spell check is for people!
I agree with everyone above! If I'm not sure of a spelling I'll open a new Word document or new message in Outlook and type the word to see if I spell it right. I always get chose/choose wrong (and lose/loose) and have to really think about it before I type the word! :) I do a lot of work via email and my boss is TERRIBLE with grammar/spelling mistakes and sometimes they are in messages being sent to customers or other people NOT in our company. It drives me insane. I also go crazy when someone says "I need a PACIFIC ____". It's SPECIFIC! ARGH!!!! :) A coworker of mine says pacific just to make me angry. :P I also hate their/they're, hear/here, we're/were, etc. I'm not good at all with commans, and semi-colons but I try my best. If it's important I'll have someone else read whatever I'm writing just to double check, and I don't mind red pen to correct me! hahaI have one pen pal that I just want to correct every letter she writes. It's a letter so it's not really a big deal but she makes SO MANY mistakes and they are obvious (to me) things too!
@ejs4y8 - I would want to send an email too! I can't stand it when professional stuff has errors (texts, blog post and even letters ok [I don't correct my pen pal EVER - that's rude! haha]) but anything that you are sending to someone you need to look professional in front of needs to be checked! *sigh*
On a funny note - I once asked my boss (via email) when an item would be in stock and she replied "your funny - it's on backorder with the manufacturer"... My funny WHAT?!?! LOL
Do any of you live in PA? There is a huge grammatical error that nearly everyone in Central PA makes and it's hard to stop... "We're going to Wal*Mart, wanna go with?" I know the "wanna go" part is bad enough but (From what I'm told) 'go with' just isn't the way to say that. haha
My biggest grammar pet peeve is probably "don't" and "doesn't" being used improperly. For example:
It just sounds horrible. I also dislike the use of double negatives.
The grammar error (if you're as old school as the English grammar expert at my law school) that I notice the most, however, is the misuse of "since" and "because." After being corrected for misusing "since" (and scolded for being an English major that made such a mistake), I have taken to heart that "since" is used for time reference only, while "because" is used for explanation/rationale/etc. I believe that is a little archaic, but thanks to our law school grammar queen, I cannot let myself use the two words interchangeably anymore.
(Mr. Bee, I was also incredibly nervous about making a grammar mistakes when I typed this comment 
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I'm an English teacher so I'm pretty used to/immune to these now! My students make so many mistakes (sometimes very funny ones) that nothing makes me cringe anymore :P
For now my pet peeve is incorrect use of present continuous, especially "I'm living in New York" and "I'm working for a software company" and incorrect present perfect use, especially the question "What have you done last night?"
For native speakers, not much grammar bugs me, but it bothers me to no end when the expression "this begs the question..." is used incorrecty
You've hit on the big ones, so this peeve is more of a spelling error that I see everywhere, especially on message boards. I can't stand it when people confuse advice for advise. Come on, people! They're two completely different words with different meanings.
I make so many typos on here. Can we get spell check?
Seomtmies it's relaly afwul. I jsut get terirbly lzay.
There is a group on Facebook called "I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar". It is hilarious! 
Haha--I have to check out that group on Facebook.
You guys have hit upon all the big ones. My biggest pet peeve is the unneccessary apostrophe. And of course: your/you're, there/their/they're, its/it's.
For the record--I blame these mistakes on spellcheck. lol
@Tanya123 -- I love Firefox because my version has a spell check feature when I'm typing in a comment area like this. I'm not sure if any other browsers have a similar feature, but it's definitely nice. :)
Good vs. Well - You will never do anything good!!
"and therefore" - it is just "therefore!!"
AAHHH haha! I hear these more than see them typed out, but my friends and family laugh about how crazy I become!
TECHNICALLY, JayDee, you can do good (as in philanthropy) but you're right you can't do something good.
Another one that popped into my head is "irregardless". It is only "regardless".
Going to a Communications school for my Master's we had to memorize an AP guide. We actually received a legitimate "F" if we made an AP mistake on any writing assignment!
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