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Friday grammar peeves

By Linda VandeVrede on November 16th, 2007 In Writing

It’s Friday, which means it’s the end of the week, and I’ve seen enough grammar and spelling errors in various newspapers and blogs to get me really peeved.  

PR people don’t seem to have these things under their belt anymore.   Why is that?

If you can’t find anything wrong with the following sentences, time to hit the grammar books again:

1) The agency celebrated it’s fiftieth blog.

2) Please come to the store with Tom and I so we can pick out the right ingredients for the recipe.

3) The hotel couldn’t accomodate more than 100 people at a time.

If you’re stumped for answers, here’s the key:   

1) should be its — it’s is only used as the contraction for “it is” – it is not possessive

2) should be Tom and me — most common error I see in PR writing.   Separate a compound subject sentence into its individual components — “come to the store with Tom” and “come to the store with me” — you wouldn’t say “come to the store with I,” would you?

3) “accommodate” should have two m’s

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