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• The 5 Most Popular Grammatical Errors Of All Time (and how to fix them)  
  

  Oh, how I love this post over at CopyBlogger: Five Grammatical Errors That Make You Look Dumb 

  I'm sure from time to time we've all helped make these grammatical errors "popular". I think it's just a matter of trying to write quickly, and a number of these errors are homophones (the words sound the same but they're spelled differently), so they're easy to get mixed up.  

  Let's take a gander at each, and see if any of these hit home:

  1) Your vs. You're

  Your is a possessive pronoun, whereas you're is a contraction for the words: you are. If you're not sure which one of these to use, try using "you are" instead, and that should make it pretty evident which version to use.

  2) It's vs. Its

  I think for many of us it's not that we don't know the difference between it's and its, but that we're so used to typing "it's" that we go on auto-pilot and automatically put it in.

  Just as a refresher, it's is a contraction for the words it is or it has. Example: "It's so gorgeous outside!"

  Its is a possessive pronoun. Example: "Did you know that your article list has its own RSS feed?"

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  Author: Steve Shaw
  Date Posted: May 5th, 2008
  Tags: article writing, grammar, writing
  Categories: Writing, Article Marketing, HowTo
  Comments: 4 Comments