Peeves! Get'cher Peeves Here!

[gnomi]

As a follow-up to yesterday's discussion, I began to wonder what folks' grammar error pet peeves are. Here are some of mine:

-- Its/it's

-- Fewer/less

-- That/which

-- Their/they're/there

-- Your/you're

I'd love to hear other folks', if you all (or y'all) are in a mood to share.

Comments

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

may/might - I've been seeing/hearing this one more and more recently, including in published books and on the news. This one really bothers me when used about past events, e.g. "X may have happened if Y hadn't happened", since the first part has me thinking that X might have actually happened, when in fact the speaker already knows (and is trying to say) that it didn't.

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Dude, sportscasters are the worst about this! I adore the television commentators for the Red Sox, but if I hear either of them say (for example) if he was holding the runner on he may have caught that about one more time ....