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A
Across, not acrossed or acrosst
Adverse/Averse
Affect/Effect
All/Alls
A lot, Alot, Allot
A.M., P.M.
Amount/Number
And etc.
And yet
A Number Of/The Number Of
Anxious/Eager
Anyways/Anyway
Are you Killing the Apostrophe?
As versus Like
Awhile/A while
B
Bad/Badly
Bath/Bathe
Beside(s) the Point
Boughten/Bought
Bring, brang, brung/Bring, brought, brought,
Bring, Take
But yet
C
Canceled/Cancelled
Can hardly/can’t hardly
Can’t help but
-Cast verbs (broadcast, forecast, simulcast, telecast)
Chose/Choose
Comma Splice
Comma with Because
Complement/Compliment
Comprise/Composed of
Conditional Perfect tense (would have been)
Conjunctive Adverbs–or Adverbial Conjuctions
Continuous/Continual
Could of/Could have
Couple of
D
Definitely misspelled as definately
Dis-focus/distract
Disorganized/Unorganized
Disorientated
Disinterested/Uninterested
Dived/Dove
Drag/Drug
Drink, drank, drunk
Due to/Because of
E
e-mail
Everyday, Every Day
Everyone, Everybody, Everything, and other Indefinite Pronouns
Every one, Any one
Exactly the same (redundancy)
Expecially, expresso, excape/especially, espresso, escape
F
Fewer/Less
Firstly, Secondly…Lastly: Ordinal Numbers
From/Off of
Fun, funner, funnest
Future Tense
G
Going to/Gonna
Gone/Went
Good, Well
Graduate (verb)
H
Healthful/Healthy
Henceforth and Hitherto
Hisself, Ourself, Theirselves, Theirself, Oneselves
Hit-and-miss/Hit-or-Miss
Hitherto and Tautologies
I
I could care less/I couldn’t care less
Impact
Impact (second blog)
Impactful
Imply, Infer
Incredible/Incredulous
Irregardless
Issue/Problem
Its/It’s
I Wish I Was/I Wish I Were (Subjunctive)
L
Lackadaisical
Leave, Let
Lie/Lay
Linking Verbs
Linking Verbs (Part 2)
Literally
Lose/Loose
M
Me and You/You and Me
Memorial Day
Mood (indicative, imperative, subjunctive)
More important/More importantly
Mothers-in-law
Myself used incorrectly
N
Nauseous/Nauseated
Neither has/have
Nip it in the butt/Nip it in the bud
No Exclusions
None has/have
Nuclear/Nucular
O
Orient/orientate
Overspoke
P
Passed/Past
Past Perfect Tense (using had)
Peak/Pique
Portmanteau
Possessive case for pairs
Precede/Proceed
Presently
Price Point
Probably mispronounced as Probly
Pronouns: you and me, you and I, him and me…
Q
Quotation marks with periods
R
Rains/Snows
Rarely/hardly ever
Reason is Because
Reason Why
Run (conjugation of the verb)
S
Saw/See/Seen
Self-words (Reflexive Pronouns)
Sit, Set
Sneak/Snuck
Spelling and Pronunciation (a lot, all right, asterisk, et cetera)
Stupidest/Most Stupid
Subject/Predicate/Verb
Subordinating Conjunctions
Supposedly/Supposably
T
Tautology
Telephonically
Then and Than Grammar
There is/There are
There, Their, They’re
These kinds/This kind
These ones
To, Too, Two
Torturous/Tortuous
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Try To or Try And
U
Unfaithful/FUNfaithful
Unite, not unite together
V
Very Unique
W
Wait on/Wait for
Want to/Wanna
Waste/Waist
We/Us with noun identifiers
Wheelbarrow/Wheelbarrel
Who/Whom
Whose/Who’s
Whosever/Whoever
Would have been (conditional perfect tense)
Y
You have another thing/think coming
Your, You’re
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