I just heard an example. “I was bit by the shark.” You can say “It bit me” but it should be “I was bitten.”
“I done it yesterday” instead of “I did it.”
And the word pet replacing pat. You Pat a dog, how can you pet it? It sounds like you’re making it a pet.
How about folks who use no punctuation whatsoever?? I skip over comments like that. I don't like having to read, and then re-read what was written to figure out what the writer was trying to say.
shareSo funny.. Someone called me on saying He drown or drowned in the pool and we had a funny argument over what I said. It really bugged them that I might have used the past tense blah blah blah.. Really? I still say I said it correctly. I have also been called out for supposedly saying expresso instead of espresso.
shareWhen you think of English how the ED can either be a D sound or a T, it must be so hard for foreigners to understand changing a word to past tense with the small sound at the end, especially the D. These are unvoiced sounds (no vocal chords used) which makes it very subtle.
shareHow about the double use of had
"he had had enough of it"
seems like it would have to be wrong, yet it is correct in English language
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Alright instead of all right. You wouldn’t say alwrong! Imply vs Infer....Imply=to suggest; Infer=to take from the suggestion
“Are you implying....?” I’m inferring from your....”