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Common Grammar Goofs

...and how to fix them.
Apostrophes
Possessive

I’ll meet you at Joe’s Bar at 7 FAULTY PARALLELISM

Subject-Verb Agreement
for our guys’ night out.
Plural noun SINGULAR NOUNS Incorrect:
The office has a shared kitchen. Stacy likes dancing and to write music.

ME, MYSELF & I PLURAL NOUNS

All offices have presentation rooms.
Correct:
Stacy likes dancing and writing music.
James and I went to the store.
Stacy likes to dance and to write music.
He gave the shopping list to me.
I bought myself a bunch of flowers.

Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers Sentence Fragments

ITS vs IT’S
It’s too cold for my rosebush, Misplaced modifiers are in the wrong part of the A sentence must have a subject, a verb and
so its flowers won’t last. sentence. Dangling modifiers have nothing to modify. a complete thought. When one is missing,
you have a fragment.
Incorrect:
YOUR vs YOU’RE I heard that there had been a car crash on the radio. Incorrect:
You’re about to receive your award. Driving down the street, the snow was still falling. Flew over the city below.
Correct: Correct:

WHO vs WHOM I heard on the radio that there had been a car crash.
Our plane flew over the city below.

Driving down the street, I could see that the snow

Who is bringing the cake?
was still falling.
The cake is for whom?