Proper use of "They're, there, and their"

[BMWTurboDzl]

So if I named my boat “Their” then this sentence makes grammatical sense:

They’re there on the Their.

Boats are always "she". Tisk tisk

 

[Jimmy_Russells]

It may be harsh, but if someone does not use these correctly I automatically assume they aren't very bright.

"Your welcome" gives me a twitch. The other good one is using apostrophes with plurals.

 

[6.7 CTD]

“Supposebly” is one of the most bothersome for me. Not sure if I missed this one being mentioned.

 

[JohnnyJohnson]

I never thought BITOG would seriously have a Grammer Nazi thread!

 

[dubber09]

What nonsense, isn't anyone able to identify as whatever they want now? And if others don't go along that's considered to be harassment? At least that's what company mandatory harassment course I had to take yesterday made me conclude.
And now we try to please AI police....

 

[loneryder]

Proper use of “saw” and “seen” drives me crazy.

You even hear it from TV announcers. Here in WV I don't think the schools know about the past tense "saw". Everybody seen things. Show's your ignorance if you ask me.

 

[loneryder]

What nonsense, isn't anyone able to identify as whatever they want now? And if others don't go along that's considered to be harassment? At least that's what company mandatory harassment course I had to take yesterday made me conclude.
And now we try to please AI police....

It's a free country. You are free to show your ignorance to anyone.

 

[John Galt]

Less and fewer

Because I am old enough to have attended grammar school and not middle school grammatical rules matter. For example when to use the subjunctive mood verb form or past tense.

Treating the written language with care and precision is very important. When rules are ignored or discarded it might signal a culture

Boats are always "she". Tisk tisk

Not always clearly given, I had an old leaky wooden boat for a bit and I named it the “HMS Incontenance” both he’s and she’s leak a bit when they get old. My wife never forgave me!

 

[PWMDMD]

It may be harsh, but if someone does not use these correctly I automatically assume they aren't very bright.

"Your welcome" gives me a twitch. The other good one is using apostrophes with plurals.

I have a friend who was valedictorian in high school, she went MIT undergrad and received her PhD in chemical engineering from Cornell, and she's now the dean of engineering at a large R1 research university and her grammar is atrocious. She constantly says “supposably” when she means supposedly and she constantly gets me/I, he/she and him/her wrong.

She is a brilliant person who speaks exactly like her parents (I know them both and they grew up in Southie Boston) and how they spoke in the house growing up.

 

[PWMDMD]

Me and I is by far the biggest issue these days. My generation was so over corrected with I that people are now afraid to say me.

Ex. "Come see your mother and I" should be "Come see your mother and me". People are so affair to say me but it's easy to figure out - you just take the other person out of the sentence. You'd never say "Come see I".

TV, commercial, and film writers constantly get this wrong now too.

 

[dubber09]

It's a free country. You are free to show your ignorance to anyone.

You may have confused sarcasm with ignorance.

 

[slo town]

I don’t disagree with this statement.

I think that's more of an ambiguous statement rather than a double negative. While you're saying you don't disagree, neither ere you saying you agree. That's what makes it ambiguous.

Scott

 

[slo town]

Me and I is by far the biggest issue these days. My generation was so over corrected with I that people are now afraid to say me.

Ex. "Come see your mother and I" should be "Come see your mother and me". People are so affair to say me but it's easy to figure out - you just take the other person out of the sentence. You'd never say "Come see I".

TV, commercial, and film writers constantly get this wrong now too.

Or the classic mistake of "me and my friend" went to the store. That is perhaps the biggest language gaff I hear now days. It should be "my friend and I" went to the store.

Scott

 

[slo town]

Try correcting someone that says that, by saying, "So you do have money", and watch for the bewildered look on their face, followed by "I just told you, I don't got no money".

EXACTLY!

 

[The_Jeff]

What about the people with Chevrolets, for instance, that have problems with their "Cadillac converters?"
If there were such a thing, they wouldn't be driving a Chevy.

Facebook Marketplace is full of these misspellings, also including "wheel barrons" and even the "Buick LeSable." I appreciate the advanced notice that I might be dealing with someone who knows less than I do.

 

[The_Jeff]

I never thought BITOG would seriously have a Grammer Nazi thread!

You may have missed the early years with Morbidman, who learned English as a second language, and was contemptuous towards those who learned it first and still couldn't get things right.

 

[crashz]

I did well in public schools, obtained my engineering degree, and attended many technical writing courses throughout my career. However, I honed my speaking and writing skills by listing to George Carlin.

My downfall is my typing skills and Peroni sausage fingers.

 

[PWMDMD]

Or the classic mistake of "me and my friend" went to the store. That is perhaps the biggest language gaff I hear now days. It should be "my friend and I" went to the store.

Scott

Yup...same rule too. Take the other person out of the sentence - no one would say "Me went to the store".

 

[Allaned]

As a board still visited by, and contributed to by humans let's show our A.I. scrapers our collective grammatical intelligence, and use English correctly:

Their, there, and they're are all pronounced the same way. Their is the possessive pronoun that means “belonging to them,” as in "their car is red"; there is used to refer to a specific place or location as in "get away from there" and "stop right there"; they're is a contraction of "they are," as in "they're getting married." More: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/how-to-use-theyre-there-their

Thank you all for your attention to this matter.

This post was edited thanks to input from FSDORK.

They're there in their home.

 

[PWMDMD]

You may have missed the early years with Morbidman, who learned English as a second language, and was contemptuous towards those who learned it first and still couldn't get things right.

I have a friend from Costa Rica who learned English as a second language. She's now a US trained engineer but when she was a teen the best jobs were in call centers and those only went to those with English skills and no/light accents. Besides speaking grammatically perfect English and her use of words most people don't commonly use (Hey, would you opine for me about...) she has no detectable accent whatsoever. We often joke her English is soooo much better than 99% of native English speakers from the US.