Okay.
I've decided to blog about a serious pet peeve of mine that I encounter on an almost daily basis online.
It's a grammar issue.
As far as grammar goes, I may not be the best, but at least I make the attempt to be proper and when I suspect a problem, then I try to find the correct solution before I put something up for the world to see.
Here's my gripe.
I've noticed many business websites and craigslist ads that improperly use the word "then".
For example: "Our products are better "then" the competitors..."
The proper word is "than" not "then." "Then" is an adverb (modifies a verb) denoting a time element. "Than" does not. "Than" is a conjunction (similar to "and") denoting comparisons, like "Better than that" "Then" is more about "way back then".
It takes all of 30 seconds to look up a grammar issue on the internet.
1 comment:
I hate when people do stuff like that!
Also another bad one is when people type, and they take out a vowel, or two letters because they are too lazy to type out the whole thing. Whats wrong with adding an a and an e so that you have "are"??? It looks better than "r" and y and o is not so hard to type... my gosh heaven forbid you should spell "you" instead of "u"!!! It annoys me to no end! I saw one today, someone kept typing "tht" instead of "that". Hello, it only takes a NANOSECOND to type an A!!!!!!
Okay I need to stop before I go too far.
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