Sep 27, 2005

an English teacher's pet peeves: blogging edition

it's = it is

its = belonging to it

they're = they are

their = belonging to them

there = not here

criteria = more than one criterion

ideology, ideological, ideologies

atheist, atheism, atheists



Thank you.

4 comments:

MT said...

Did yous forgot "atheistic"?

While you're at it, could you get them to learn that you never have "one bacteria"?

Jim Anderson said...

Not only in grammar, but in life. They multiply too fast.

(No one ever says "datum.")

TeacherRefPoet said...

Do you get "where"f for "were," or is that unique to my suburb?

Jim Anderson said...

Can't say that I've noticed that trend. We're illiterate in very particular ways.