Don't you hate it when people mix up "you're" and "your" or "there" and "their"? Are you, just like us, annoyed that text messaging have led other people to believe that "d2 na me" is acceptable even when they're not texting?
If you're a grammar Nazi, you might enjoy Jose Carillo's new book, The 10 Most Annoying English Grammar Errors, that will be released today (May 15) in selected outlets of National Book Store, Powerbooks, Bestsellers, and Goodwill Bookstore. With its biting, no-holds-barred critiques of grammatical errors found even in newspapers, magazines, and websites, Carillo's new book promises to be an educating and amusing look at English usage. It even provides 65 grammar exercises that may help users and learners avoid such errors.
Carillo will also release the second edition of English Plain and Simple, a book for non-native English learners which earned him a National Book Award in linguistics. You can take a look at these books at www.manilatimes.net/josecarillobooks.
Sure, English is not even our first language, but we do have to admit that grammatical errors can either make or break our day, depending on whether the mistakes are heartily amusing or just plain annoying.
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