What are the common grammar mistakes that most people do?

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What are the common grammar mistakes that most
people do?
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• Silly grammar mistakes can really make one look
  dumb. Though a person might be very good at the
  subject being addressed, grammar mistakes can be
  a big turn off for the reader.

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• In academics, the role of language skill is as
  important as any other subject.
• In order to convey your answer, essay or
  whatever, you need to possess language skills.
• Rules of grammar direct you toward conveying your
  written message as clearly as possible. Without
  grammar to guide us, most of what we write would
  be meaningless, quite literally.

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• Here are some of the grammar mistakes that we can
  avoid and make our writing more meaningful and
  understandable.

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What to learn?

• Youre and Your.
• Their, There and theyre
• Effect and Affect
• Then and Than
• Who and Whom

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Youre and Your

• This is perhaps one of the most common mistakes
  that we make. Both these words sound almost
  similar but each of it is very different.
• Youre

Is a contraction of you and are. These two
words are joined together to form youre
Your
is a pronoun that defines possession or ownership
as in, is this your book? Youre expected to
work on this project.
Now, try substituting youre with your and
youll find the sentence to be odd while making
no sense. So, whenever you have a doubt whether
youre and your has to be used, try
interchanging these words and youll understand
the difference.
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Their, There and theyre

• There and theyre are also very similar to
  youre and your. Here also, theyre is
  contraction of they and are, while there
  refers to a location and their refers to
  possession by a number of people.
• Some people have the habit of switching these
  words, which renders the sentence meaningless.
• Examples
• Theyre working very hard to meet the deadline.
• There is no place for a criminal to hide.
• It is the responsibility of the government to
  protect people and their properties.
• Now, in each of these examples, try to
  interchange the words theyre, there and
  their and check for yourself which is the
  correct sentence and youll know it immediately.

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Effect and Affect

• There is a lot of confusion among many people
  whether they should write effect or affect,
  as they both are not only similar sounding words,
  but their meaning in many cases, seems to be
  similar and interchangeable.
• But in reality, they are two different words with
  two different meanings.
• While effect is the result of some event,
  affect is the influence that something has on
  another. Examples Good results are the effect
  of hard work and industry. A large donation
  shall not affect my decision to vote against.

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Then and Than

• There is a lot of confusion among many people
  whether they should write effect or affect,
  as they both are not only similar sounding words,
  but their meaning in many cases, seems to be
  similar and interchangeable.
• But in reality, they are two different words with
  two different meanings.
• While effect is the result of some event,
  affect is the influence that something has on
  another.
• Examples
• Good results are the effect of hard work and
  industry.
• A large donation shall not affect my decision to
  vote against.

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Who and Whom

• Apparently, there is also confusion with regards
  to using who and whom.
• Both these words are pronouns with very similar
  meanings referring to a third party.
• Who is to define the subject of the clause and
  whom is used to define the object of the
  clause.

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Who and Whom

• If the question is about a person, then who
  should be used and if the question is about
  something related to a person then whom should
  be used.
• Example
• Who had visited my office yesterday? Here the
  question is about the person who visited the
  office and other than visiting office, nothing
  else is related to the person in the sentence.
• I dont remember the name of the person whom I
  met 1 month ago for a brief period of time In
  this sentence, whom is appropriate because the
  object in the sentence is meeting a person 1
  month before for a brief period of time.

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• These are some of the major grammatical mistakes
  that we make and we can easily correct them with
  little knowledge and practice. Remember not to
  skip those grammar classes the next time.
• ____________________________

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