Dear Grammar Idiots

[superbadgirl]

Yes, I'm talking to you.

"Your" and "you're" are actually very simple to differentiate. Rather than explaining possessives and contractions, as that seems to make people's heads spin, I'll simply state that if you can break the word you're using in any given sentence into "you" and "are", then you should use "you're." If that's not what you mean, then go with "your."

SIMPLE.

Also please note that the past tense of drag is not drug. Drug is either a pharmaceutical or, as a verb, means to give someone a pharmaceutical. Dragged is the word you want. Really.

Past and passed are not interchangeable. Costumer when you mean customer is just plain embarrassing. Bemused is not the same thing as amused.

Do not get me started on the then/than issue so many of you seem to have. That one is also simple to understand if you just think about it for half a second or so.

My advice: get a beta who has a clue, and instead of just using her/him as a tool, learn from her/him.

Sincerely,

Girl Who Shouldn't Read at Fanfiction.net

Comments

[el1ie.livejournal.com]

Oh they probably do read them, find them all the same and strive to be totally unique - and unread. *G*

[superbadgirl]

Heh. It boggles my mind, honestly, that there are some stories so shoddily put together which receive an inordinate amount of feedback when some that I've found to be of decent quality get a handful of encouraging notes.

Er...

[el1ie.livejournal.com]

God that gets me too. I found something only the other day that was full of dreadful spelling, mixed up tenses and the punctuation skills of a dead squirrel and I gave up trying to read, but not before scrolling down and finding about 20 messages full of absolute praise - I really wanted to tear my hair out and I should I suppose have left a message mentioning the problems, but honestly I didn't think I would survive the fallout.