Now here’s a study I can get behind:
Bad grammar is so maddening it activates the ‘fight or flight’ response within the human body
No prizes for guessing which one, in my case.
Instances of bad grammar can include mixing up tenses within a sentence, confusing the singular and plural, using a double negative or misusing a comma.
They explained that knowledge about a first language is largely implicit, as most people did not need to sit and study to learn their mother tongue.
And this could mean that our body reacts to bad grammar even if we cannot pinpoint exactly what is wrong within a sentence.
My problem is that I usually can pinpoint the mistake; and my response is
Grrr grrrr grrrrr…
I believe that wrapping the end of the baseball bat with barbed wire would flay the perpetrator rather than cause deep puncture wounds. Deep puncture wounds could end the treatment very abruptly.
JQ
I agree, like… you know, shoot them, on site on site, I mean, terminal with extreme prejudicial.
We don’t wont them not in tact.
– some journalism major.
my recent pet peeve if the ubiquitous use of the apostrophe in places where it isn’t warranted (and on occasion omitting one that is needed). Can’t stand people using theres or their’s instead of theirs for example, something that’s now so common it’s getting worse than merely troubling.
I axe you how can you not get get arised when some jerk gives free reign to his fibble fealings?