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"The invitation was mailed to she and I."
"Please let Mark and I know when we should arrive at the meeting."
"It was kind of you to consider asking Debbie and I for our opinions."
AARRGGHHHH!! It's a hypercorrective measure that results in the misuse of the subject pronoun. I hear it every day. All one has to do is isolate the first person. Would anyone say "The invitation was mailed to I," or "Please let I know when I should arrive at the meeting" or "It was kind of you to consider asking I for my opinion?" Seems easy enough, but so many people go the other way.
You know what I dislike? You know when someone says "supposably" instead of, you know, "supposedly?"
By the way, thanks for the thread! I learned a couple things (from the pages I did read.)
Well, I will add a few, but not b/c they irritate me (unless spoken by anchors or reporters - who should know better). Maybe someone will recognize a mistake he/she regularly makes - simply b/c these are common errors:
recurring, not re-ocurring
Undoubtedly, not undoubtably
oriented, not orientated
centers around. Hmmm. how does one do that? How about - focuses on
refer - why do people say "refer back to?" If it refers, it refers, LOL.
separate - not seperate
definite - not definate
apparent - not apparant
accommodate - not accomodate
Those are some of the most common errors I come across in documents.
We all make mistakes while writing quickly. I have seen some on my own posts that have made me cringe, but oh well. Mistakes happen.
Aarrrrrrrghhhhhh.... incorrect use of commas drives me nuts.
Like this: Choose the response, which matches your behaviour.
It completely changes the sense! This sentence means that there's only one response and it matches your behaviour whether you like it or not. Why do some people get it into their heads that certain words have to have a comma before them, whatever the context?
Plus this is another example where "that" would be much clearer than "which". That annoys me as well - I think "which" gets over-used because some people think it's more formal or proper in some way.
I was thinking about something similar the other day actually - I wonder why we say "8 stone 10" rather than "8 stones 10" or "6 foot 3" - it's very strange.
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