I just got word, *sob, sob*, that I’ve lost an important freelance gig today.

Life goes on and, as Shirley constantly tells me, we’ll be all right. (She’s never been wrong about that yet.)

Dangling participial phrases. Can’t believe that people with an education or a wide background of reading don’t just FEEL it and cringe at the nonsense. Where I live we hear it on the news all the time.

Another one: defining or limited relative clause vs. unlimited relative clause, along with the correct use of ‘which’ and ‘that’ — also bears on the issue of the importance of punctuation to meaning, e.g.:

Journalists that tell lies are a nuisance.

Journalists, who tell lies, are a nuisance.

I have seen a survey that indicated that a good knowledge of grammar is a predicter of low income.
Sorry Gary, looks like we can have clear writing OR dollars but not both.

James Joyce and William Blake never did make a decent living from their writing.

I think it’d be fun sometime to do a post made up of nothing but misuses of “more than/then,” “alot/a lot” and all the goodies at the “ThereTheir.com” website, just to see how it would read.

If I put such a post up — would anyone “get it” and comment? Maybe so, now that I’ve alerted you all to watch for it. LOL!

My pet peeve is a lot which is actually two words, not one.

I confess I continue to struggle with affect/effect. I even got tested on that regularly at an office job I used to have. It irritates me that I still have trouble with it.

Ah, well. We all make misteaks sometimes, write?

I’m guessing you cringe as much as I do when visiting a certain message board?

Submitted to Stumble. Good stuff!