After being on the Armor Games community for a year or so now, I have decided that 30% of Armor Gamers do not know what grammar is. Using proper grammar can have side effects such as: sounding intelligent, being taken seriously, and not looking like an a-hole.
Today, I found a website with many funny articles, but I am not here to share the website with you. I am here to share three articles I have found on the website that explain the usage of a semicolon, an apostrophe, and 10 words you need to stop misspelling. These articles can be found in the following links.
Even though I already knew what semicolons, apostrophes, and the correct usage of the ten words mentioned in the article, the articles explained the concepts to me better than my 6th through 8th grade English classes (and in a more humorous manner).
So, I encourage you all to read these three articles, especially that 30% I mentioned earlier.
*disclamer* All of these articles are property of theoatmeal.com and I do not claim any of them as my own. They were all written/drawn by theoatmeal.com
On a serious note, people are stupid. They probably haven't passed an English class in their life. Others are foreigners without the slightest idea of what English means.
Obscure uses of effect and affect are a great way to trip up other aspiring grammarians.
The two things I find myself whining about most are: 1) Who and whom. Using whom all the time does not make you smarter. The difference is simple. Learn it, use it.
2) People often use mismatched pronouns, subjects, and verbs. This really bugs me. Like here: "They probably haven't passed an English class in their life." Lives. Plural subject (they). I think that's right.
There are also people like me, who are simply technologically inept. For instance, I have no idea how to make a comma on this laptop. That thing after "for instance" is just a modified apostrophe. Seeing as this is probably the one place where I can be a stickler about grammar, it is worth noting that the use of contractions is to be discouraged when writing. It is (not it's) okay to say "They're" when talking, but you should always write out "They are" when writing (unless you are writing diologue). It is just more refined. I put in five gramatical/spelling mistakes into this post so that you can all call me a hippocrite. If someone finds them all, I'll buy them a pony.
The comma between "me" and "who" should not be there.
You spelled dialogue as "diologue"
You spelled hypocrite as "hippocrite"
That is all that I could come up with. I am still looking. I do not know if the "I'll" at the end of your paragraph would count as one even though it is technically grammatically correct, but you just got over talking about how one should not use contractions when writing.
