Comments on: Bad Grammar Examples

By: Derek Murphy

Derek Murphy — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:29:43 +0000

I ain’t got a good example of bad grammer. My english is purfect. Thank you.

By: hilarywilson

hilarywilson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:39:09 +0000

One of my favorite statements from my friends in Kentucky is: “I can’t make no promises.” By using a double negative, they imply that not only can they make promises, but that it is necessary for them to do so. Unfortunately, the use of the word “any” in the sentence (I can’t make any promises.) would be more indicative of their behavior.

By: Littlemann

Littlemann — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:06:09 +0000

We are currently going over this same topic, writing with proper grammar, in my Criminal Investigations class. Here is an example of a homonym from class.

“He called for a toe truck” = ” He called for a tow truck”

By: Michael M

Michael M — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:29:11 +0000

Its not to big of a deal, but sometimes annoucements omit certain verbs…

For example:
Police 911
For information (555) 555-5555
Johns Pizza 555-5555

IMO, I think that it an important peice of information is left out. What am I supposed to do here? I’ve never learned how to “555-5555″. Of course its implied that the following set of numbers is a contact telephone, because we are familar with that notation.

By: kylekennington

kylekennington — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:54:01 +0000

I just have to say that I believe there is some correlation between the black hip hop influence on our society. Large majority of these examples sound like 50 cent and snoop dog.

By: Brett Knight1

Brett Knight1 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:44:01 +0000

A bad example of bad grammar is “I went the store to get some fruit at the store.” or “I like to eat fish because seafood is good and i like to eat it often and its never enough so I want to go to Red lobster

By: Brett Knight1

Brett Knight1 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:40:58 +0000

So, post a comment here and share an example of poor grammar (keep the author of it anonymous). At the same time, share what is wrong with the example (such as missing comma or misplaced modifier).

By: shay

shay — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:44:48 +0000

People often use the word “good” when they should be using “well”. If someone asks how you are doing and you say “I’m doing good,” you are saying that you are doing good things. You should be saying you are doing well. When asked, “how are you?”, it would then be appropriate to say, “I’m good”. I see this occasionally in people’s writing, but hear it all the time.

By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:55:43 +0000

I goes home to ate.
This a bad sentence because the tenses are not right. The correct way would be I went home to eat.

By: marcus baker

marcus baker — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:10:46 +0000

My brother writes songs and has an o.k. following in Provo. He once wrote a song titled “You and Me”. Everybody let him know that it was bad grammar to say that. He ended up changing some of the words in his song to say, “and I know that it’s bad grammar…” To this day he doesn’t like to sing that song when it was requested because of the grammar incident.