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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Yeah for me it depends on how bad it is. A few mistakes here and there I am not likely to even notice any issues, but one book I read recently was so bad I had to just skip complete sentences because I could not figure out what the author was trying to say.
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Yes, that's the kind of thing I was referring to. One of two mistakes in the book won't put me off reading it, certainly. I'm really referring to situations in which the author is clearly lacking basic grammatical knowledge.
An example: I was reading a book recently in which the author was fond of using the word "awhile", but was clearly unaware of the grammatical difference between "awhile" (an adverb meaning "for a length of time") and "a while" (a noun meaning "a length of time"), and hence kept saying things like "we stopped for awhile", which is just plain wrong; you can say either "we stopped awhile" or "we stopped for a while", but not "we stopped for awhile". That was a commercially published book, too. THAT'S the kind of thing that bugs me.