Ugh! I've just made one my most cringing grammatical mistakes on my blog!
Forgive me. It is late. I am tired and writing fast.
In my earlier post ("ebay is pretty darn cool"), I wrote it's instead of its.
I only discovered my error once I read my blog after it was posted. It's baffling. I know that rule backwards and forwards. I find that when I write quickly, I sometimes make such mundane errors. It's like my furiously typing hands insist on going one direction until my brain says, "Wait a minute, back up, slow down." Once my brain takes over, I (usually) see my mistakes.
When I see such mistakes made publicly, first I get really annoyed, then I want to scream, and then I have the urge to march into the offender's place of business and explain to them their most objectionable error. Even offer to correct it.
The crux is, I still have a lot to learn about grammar. More specifically, I have a lot to retain.
When I began this blog, I decided not to spend too much time on each post. IE. not to treat each post like an article I would write for a newspaper or a magazine. Goodness, if I did that I wouldn't have time to complete many posts, and this process would become exactly opposite of what I created it to be. (Work for publication CAN take hours and hours and hours and hours of time) So thanks for overlooking grammatical errors, misplaced commas and modifiers, dangling participles and (gasp!) misspelled words. This blog is basically a place to free flow, to encourage inspiration, to practice diligence, to put myself out there. It is a place where imperfection is okay.
I've been blessed to learn from one of the best editors in the business. She is a diehard wordsmith, an enthusiastic mentor, an avid reader, a fabulous writer, a patient teacher and a dear friend.
Forgive me, Barbara, for my its/it's error.
I do know better :)
**Is diehard one word? :)
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Grammatically Correct Haiku
Lord, I pray tonight
for those who teach. May we learn,
and grow, share and sow.
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1 comment:
I wouldn't worry too much about gramatical mistakes invoving contractions. It's an easy mistake for one to make and the old spell checker doesn't catch its own mistakes. :-)
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