Bad grammar rubs me the wrong way.
Two commercials on TV and the bad grammar therein:
EXAMPLE #1:
"When your car needs repaired, bring it in!"
Correction:
"When your car needs repairs..." or "When your car needs to be repaired..."
I hate this recent addition to our already poor grammar. It seems that everyone uses this particular grammatical error.
EXAMPLE #2:
(Let me set the scene... husband and wife in bedroom. Husband in bed, apparently unable to sleep. Wife gives husband "all natural, non-habit forming" sleeping pill. Husband yawns, places head on pillow and is out like a light...Wife says the following:)
"[Brand X Sleeping pill] works! (wife looks at snoring husband) Maybe a little too good."
WHAT! How did this get past editors? Really? This is STILL an issue?
Correction:
"Maybe a little too well." (I know it is a fragmented sentence as well, but let's focus on the obvious.)
He says, "Dang. I should have went." (enter sound of fingernails on a chalkboard)
I giggle.
He says, "What?"
I say, "You should have gone."
He says, "Yeah, I should have went."
(The adult in me says that I should just let it go. The perturbed student of Ms. Reed's English class in Junior High says I can't let this go. What is a person to do?)
I say, "No, pal. It is 'I should have gone'. Not 'I should have went'."
He says, "Whatever".
Or the ever-favorite Tooele expression:
"What did you did this weekend?"
"What did you did this weekend?"
I am sure that I have my fair share of bad grammar (Ken would say "funnier" and "funniest" are a problem for me), but there are just some obvious ones that should be removed from the English conversation.
Now I'm gunna go to bed. Okay, okay... I am going to go to bed.
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