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by audiogal on March 18th, 2007

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What is your biggest grammar pet peeve? (mine is your/you're)

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  • by theredbaron on June 26th, 2007

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    When people don't use a possesive pronoun with a gerund. A gerund is when you stick "ing" on the end of a verb and use it as a noun. For everyone that's now thinking, "Huh?" I'll give an example. Most folks write/say, "Fred's texting won't improve his grammar as much as him studying." when it should be, "Fred's texting won't improve his grammar as much as HIS studying."

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    • The latter makes it sound as though by texting Fred will improve his grammar somewhat but he will improve his studying more.

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      by tapatio on August 6th, 2009

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