The Army recently changed its correspondence regulation. They changed paragraph indentation from 0.5" to 0.25", and it barely looks indented at all now.
Yeah that's one sooooooo many people mess up. Most people will pretty much always say "My husband and I" even when it should be "my husband and me". "my husband an I's" instead of "my husband and my" is one I don't see too often. The correct way not a really natural phrasing, to be fair
You can blame a good deal of this on the trend that began waaaay back in the 1970s with mini-courses to attract students' interest and to appeal to them. Schools offered fun courses like Comic Books As Literature, TV and Movies Based On Books, Daily Journal Writing, etc. Students were often required to pick 1 or 2 solid ones, like Grammar For You!, Write Better Reports, Creative Writing--and then could choose a couple of fun courses for successive semesters/quarters.What truly makes me sad, though, is to read emails and memos from corporate executives. Long gone are the days when a secretary would catch any mistakes before something was sent. Nowadays, executives will send out things themselves. I cringe when I see the obvious grammar and spelling mistakes. These are people representing their company.
That's an assault on readability. Gross. Go Army anyway!
I extrude plastic pellets and expend [expand, I left my typing skill showing there to be honest in the spirit of the thread] it into foam. I was running the expander and had just dropped off a sack of pellets where we unload into the hopper. 5 minutes later my department coordinator comes up and tells me he brought over pellets for me. I said I already got them, did he bring more? "No... PELLETS! I brought PELLETS over!" He's yelling at me for 5 minutes trying to get me to understand. I opened up the door even and pointed, "One bag of pellets and it's the one I dropped off." Again, "I said PELLETS!"Seriously though, I tend to keep my grammar opinions to myself. Oh, I judge, but I won't say anything.
What truly makes me sad, though, is to read emails and memos from corporate executives. Long gone are the days when a secretary would catch any mistakes before something was sent. Nowadays, executives will send out things themselves. I cringe when I see the obvious grammar and spelling mistakes. These are people representing their company.
My boss texted me last Sunday a Happy Father's Day text. I typed "Thanks Hair and Happy Father's Day to you as well!" Then I typed "Hair, not hair." On the 3rd try as I was trying to correct it to Jair his actual name, he texted, "yeah I know, autocorrect does that with everyone."
But that isn't pluralizing the word. It's showing possessive and though it's wrong, it is still more correct than actually pluralizing with apostrophes.
That's why we get "could of/should of/would of". Pronounce "could've".
Do I ever understand that one, having worked quality control in a disposable medical products extrusion department!
OMG, my boss is terrible with this. He does it all the time, even in formal writing. I don’t know why feels the “need” to do it. He also over uses parentheses (like this). It drives me up a wall and is embarrassing when used in professional stuff coming from the company.
True, and sometimes you've read a word but not heard it spoken. I blew my son's mind the other day when I corrected him that when you say "having a row", row rhymes with chow. He was saying it as in "row your boat". He'd read it in books but it's not a common phrase in the US so he'd never heard anyone say it. Language is fun.
I think in that case it’s possessive, but still incorrect.
