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Errors to avoid in your use of the English language
- tdy 16y agoMe never understood how someone could of possibly mixed up they're words that much. Is it just because they sound alike? But then again, a lot of people just don't get the plural s/ apostrophe rule in German as well (it is different from the English rules, but still consistent).
- shawndumas 16y agoi see what you did there.
- balding_n_tired 16y agoIt is perfectly acceptable to end sentences with a preposition: see Fowler's _Modern Englist Usage_ for a review of this. Some of the great English and American writers have left participles dangling, though certainly prose reads better without the construction. There is really no substitute for exposure to the correct usage. It was somewhere in junior high that "to" and "too" sorted themselves out for me, in the essentially monoglot midwest. I admire the writer's concern for her nth language.