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Originally Posted by Gudy
What bugs me, personally, far more than contractions are people who can't keep their tenses straight or constantly mix up their homophones. In my opinion, if you can't keep things like they're/their/there, here/hear, or sole/soul straight, and you can't be bothered to employ an editor who can, you have no business inflicting your writing on the world.
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Alas, that's all too common; you have only to read the posts on this site to see it. The general standard of written English is just shocking these days.
By far the most common error is writing "it's" as a possessive pronoun. That's one that really annoys me because it's so easy to get it right.