My Son’s favorite football player is Brett Favre He retired last year.

This is an example of a sentence with grammar problems. The problem with the sentence is that it contains two independent clauses and no period, comma or conjuction. In other words, this is a run on sentence.

My Son’s favorite football player is Brett Favre, who retired last year.

Example of common grammar mistakes:

Please send a copy of the letter to Mitch and I.

Correct this sentence by removing the other person and the word “and” from the equation.

Please send a copy of the letter to I. (Does this sound grammatically correct?)

Please send a copy of the letter to me. (Does this sound grammatically correct?)

The sentence should read: Please send a copy of the letter to Mitch and me.

He didn’t send nothing to me.

This is an example of a double negative.

It is easily corrected by removing the word didn’t or the word nothing.

He didn’t send anything to me.

He sent nothing to me.

This is one of my favorite errors, seen on more than a couple bus stop benches in the Salt Lake area.
“Now Hiring Nurse’s”
Now hiring nurse’s what’s??? Should we hire their hat, or maybe their shoes? The apostrophe denotes that it’s possessive, so the more accurate way to say it would be
“Now Hiring Nurses” meaning we want to hire the actual nurse.

“At.” As in, “Where do you live at?” Or, “Do you always know where your kids are at?”

Do not end a sentence in a preposition.

A grammar mistake that I just came across is the misuse of the word badly.
Example: “I feel badly for him because he’s getting divorced.”
Badly should be used as an adverb describing a verb like touch.
So the sentence should read “I feel bad for him because he’s getting divorced.”

So, I was talking to my roomate on Saturday and we were talking about his love life. He has not had a girlfriend in a while mainly out of spite to his parents. I told him that he could tell his parents that he didn’t want to get married right now. He said to me that.”Yeah, that would go over even more better than not having a girlfriend.” So the problem with this sentance is that he used “more better.” When using the word better, the word more is not needed.

I always seem to struggle with comma placement. I either use too many commas or I don’t use enough commas. In English 1010 the main comma that I seemed to forget is in the following example. “Sharks eat mostly squid, shrimp, crabs, and other fish.” Remember that there is always a comma before
the word “and” when you are listing things.

Some of the more common grammer errors invloves people who say aint instead of are not or aren’t, or brung instead of brought. When you answer the phone and someone asks for you, the correct way to answer is “this is she/he” not “this is me”. Also remembering the proper time to use certain words like effect and affect, your and you’re etc.

I work with some guys that seem to forget to use the word “have”, such as “They been working on such and such project” or ” We seen this one thing…”. It kind of drives me crazy, but I get over it. The proper way to say it would be “They have been working on such and such project”.

This is a grammar error that I see quite a bit of in my own writing.

“Its a very nice day outside.”

The error is in the word its. Because in this sentence the word its is a contraction of it and is it should be spelled “it’s.” Another similar error is when you use “it’s” in a possessive context, but in this case, you omit the apostrophe.

“I don’t got none.”
This sentence is using a double negative, it should say; “I don’t have any.”
“I saw a eagle.”
should be “I saw an eagle.”

When do I use effect and affect?
Most people struggle with in which circumstances do i use affect or effect. I even struggle with this concept myself. Sometimes i misuse these words without even noticing it and i have to go back and switch terms.
Now, would i use the sentence,
(1)”gas prices affected the economy.”
or the sentence,
(2)”gas prices effected the economy.”
Which sentence would i use in this case:
(3)”Gas prices had an enormous affect on the economy”
or,
(4)”Gas prices had an enormous effect on the economy.”
Most of the time, affect is used as a verb, and effect is used as a noun.
Since in sentence (1) and (2) affect and effect are in a position that they are verbs, sentence (1) is correct because it uses affect which should be used as a verb.
Since in sentence (3) and (4) affect and effect are in a position that they are nouns, sentence (1) is correct because it uses effect which should be used as a noun.

Well shoot, I was in the process of writing the same mistake that Zach wrote. One of my friends says things like that a lot and I thing it’s hilarious! here’s another one: My phone’s broke. The word broke is actually a verb when they are trying to use it as an adjective here.

O man i dun did it again ain’t got no shoes on and heres we are at the store? This sentence is all messed it O should be Oh and dun should be done ain’t isn’t a word got should be have heres here and its not a question.