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13 Sep 2008, 8:05 pm

Social_Fantom wrote:

I, tend, to, overuse, commas,.

Same here.

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13 Sep 2008, 8:37 pm

most common mistake is with their/there/they're, probably could fix it if I proof read what I wrote, but I don't

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13 Sep 2008, 9:49 pm

Mine is saying:

"A person that did something" as opposed to "A person who did something"

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14 Sep 2008, 2:24 am

sometimes it's figuring out which version of "then" "than" I should use in a sentence. on a more regular basis it's normally just 'teh'

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14 Sep 2008, 2:27 am

jawbrodt wrote:

Social_Fantom wrote:

I, tend, to, overuse, commas,.

Same here.

That's why I got a 60 on my last paper :evil:

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14 Sep 2008, 2:32 am

I pause.....and then put dots....

.....rather than commas.

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14 Sep 2008, 4:49 am

^

Oh, is that a mistake...
guess i have to add that
to my list then...

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14 Sep 2008, 6:56 pm

MissConstrue wrote:

I pause.....and then put dots....

.....rather than commas.

Uhhhhhh... Yeah... I kinda do that to...

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14 Sep 2008, 8:34 pm

I overuse or underuse commas.

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14 Sep 2008, 8:38 pm

rekoil wrote:

I haven't quite figured the proper use of a semi-colon, and I use way too many compound sentences. Even when the second half isn't a complete logical continuation of the first. Oh, and sentence fragments. hehe

You could use semi-colons in compound sentences. It's like a comma but everything before and after the semi-colon has to be a complete sentence.

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14 Sep 2008, 8:41 pm

Mostly punctuation-related stuff.

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14 Sep 2008, 8:42 pm

Another grammatical error I make is not using the best possible sentence I could use or wording things in a way that might be misunderstood. I usually only do this in forums. I guess that would be considered a grammatical error.

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14 Sep 2008, 8:43 pm

I never make grammatical mistakes on purpose. I do make some intentional mistakes... in an effort to sound or look normal .

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