Sir kris

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en

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

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Majority ≠ right

This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.

majority
≠
ad populum fallacy

Although this user acknowledges the logical fallacy ad populum, they do not think that it applies to human language, and recognise that the majority determines grammatical "right" and "wrong".

Majority Usage
=
Correct Grammar

This user recognizes that if most people make the same grammatical "mistake", it ceases to be a mistake and becomes proper grammar, for grammar has no immutable or moral "right" or "wrong" and "correct grammar" is determined by majority usage.

Speakers Know Best

This user recognizes that grammar comes from humans, not from the heavens. Trust native speakers.

they

This user considers singular they standard English usage.

they

This user frequently uses singular they as it is a handy gender-neutral pronoun.

fire~~man~~fighter
mankind

This user supports the use of gender-neutral language when it reasonably exists as an alternative to a common gendered word.

(s)he

This user supports parallel usage.

ubiquitous ≠ widespread

This user asserts that the more common word is often not the most precise.

by

The passive voice may be used by this user.

snk

This user says either sneaked or snuck.

"There's" with a plural subject

This user knows that "there's" with a plural subject is a pervasive grammatical error. ~~There's~~ ^{There are} too many people making this mistake. Don't be one of them.

infinitive

This user has no opinion about split infinitives.

with, at, in, for, to...

This user has no opinion about ending a sentence with a preposition.

to
too
two

This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

if & whether

This user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly.

than
then

This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then."

their
there
they're

This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

your
you're

This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.

its & it's

This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

its
it's

It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.

its

This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has).

who(m)

This user uses either who or whom in the object case.

You and Me

This user thinks that if you believe it is incorrect to use "you and me" as the object of a sentence, a little talk needs to be had by you and me...

which & that

This user knows how to use which and that correctly.

which
that

This user typically uses "which" and "that" interchangeably.

which & that

This user joins with Dickens, Melville, and other great writers[1] in rejecting the canard that which may not be used for restrictive relative clauses.

less & fewer

This user understands the difference between less & fewer.

much & many

This user understands the difference between much & many.

Latin Plurals: "Data is are..."

This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum".

English Singulars: "The data is..."

This user recognizes that "data", "media", and "agenda" have become incorporated into English as singular nouns.

~~ain't nobody~~

This user hates seeing double negatives clutter up the English language. He/she wants to stomp it out no matter what it takes.

based

Based on experience, this user knows that based off is nearly always incorrect.

-ly

This user mourns the apparent death of the adverb, a loss that this user feels most serious.

DM

Causing unintended humor, this user edits dangling modifiers.

. The

This user puts two spaces after a period.

,

This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying.

,

This user has no opinion about the serial comma.

Wheaties, Cheerios, and Rice Chex

This user prefers the cereal comma.

,

This user supports the use of the
Oxford comma.

’s

Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

’s

This user realises that plural nouns should not have an apostrophe while possessive words should!

’s

This user understands that ~~apostrophe's~~ apostrophes are for possession and contraction, not pluralization.

"…"

This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.

"…"!
~~US vs. UK~~

This user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue!

;

This user knows how to use a semicolon correctly.

—

This user knows the difference between a dash and a hyphen, and follows MOS:DASH.