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. Look at some of the common grammarly mistakes-

1. What are the common
grammar mistakes that
most people do?

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

5. What to learn?
 You’re and Your.
 Their, There and
they’re
 Effect and Affect
 Then and Than
 Who and Whom

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

7. Their, There and they’re
‘There’ and ‘they’re’ are also very similar to ‘you’re’ and ‘your’. Here
also, “they’re” 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:
• They’re 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
‘they’re’, ‘there’ and ‘their’ and check for yourself which is the
correct sentence and you’ll know it immediately.

8. 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’.

9. 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’.

10. 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.

11. 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 don’t 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.

12. 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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