Common Grammar Mistakes to Avoid
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Published 2012-11-14
After you've completed an article, it's very important to carefully proofread for typos and grammar mistakes. IVN's Editors will look for and correct the occasional typo or grammatical error that may slip by you, but will not take the time to heavily edit a submission with too many errors.
Before setting your In Progress article to Ready to Publish status using the publish form near the top of the right sidebar on the Edit Page, you should make sure that it is in fact, publish ready. While the following list is not comprehensive, here are some of the most common grammar mistakes to avoid:
Remember to never use double spaces between sentences. This is an outdated convention from the era of typewriters and although it is still common, all English manuals of style now consider it incorrect for any kind of writing.
All Comments (9)
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Here's another list, developed by a hardline faction of the University of Chicago's secretive Grammar Council: "7 grammar mistakes that make others want to take a shovel to your face" http://dandygoat.com/avoid-these-5-grammar-mistakes-that-make-others-want-to-take-a-shovel-to-your-face
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The bill's name is the PATRIOT Act. It's a rather contrived acronym, but an acronym none-the-less.
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Long live the Oxford comma!
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Awkward that when he said this he made a grammar mistake and people in interviews pick up more about your intelligence from your verbal grammar than from your written grammar.
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Oxford commas are, unfortunately, no longer acceptable.
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Wow! this smell like a Koch brothers funded video.
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It would have been better to slow down and not to sound so rushed.
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This is most obtuse and inaccurate.
