Thank you for this thread. I hate seeing that kind of awful grammar. Here's another one:
Incorrect: "Go to the job sight. The photo is a nice site."
Site is a place. Sight is vision.
Web site, not web sight.
Sight for sore eyes, not site for sore eyes.
I think the absolute most annoying one must be "sale" though. I hate that one the most out of all of them.
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Originally Posted by MerF
I actually have a problem with that, even though I know you are correct. I find myself constantly using an apostrophe as an ownership (as if it is the subject of the sentence). I can't think of a specific example, but I always got it wrong in college english papers.
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That is because the language is not consistent. The apostrophe is used to make a proper noun posessive, but not a pronoun.
All correct:
The Camaro's wheels are shiny.
Its wheels are shiny.
Stephanie's car has shiny wheels.
Hers has shiny wheels.