I do have a couple of spelling ones that I get wrong routinely, though I don't remember which ones off the top of my head. It took me years to be able to spell "interest" and "ridiculous" correctly, though.
Gramatically -- I don't know if this is a problem per se so much as a quirk -- I am incapable of writing a simple sentence. I use a ridiculous number of compound/complex sentences; I'll join every other sentence with a semicolon for no reason I can discern. I also use more dashes than necessary, and tend to repeat sentence beginnings (such as starting 2-3 consecutive sentences with "also" or "however.")
I completely empathize! When I was working for the General Assembly my supervisor had to remind me numerous times that we were "dumbing down" the law and, thus, short, one subject sentences were okay, no, really! I was writing paragraph-long statements that, while perfectly grammatically correct, were on the fast-track to causing "reader fatigue." Somehow simple sentences seem like cheating, when writing, as they take less effort and just seem to end so abruptly.
Interesting (well, to me, as a dork and all) tidbit about the punctuation inside/outside of quotation marks -- that was a typesetter's rule that just became generally adopted grammatically. Essentially, putting the punctuation inside the quotation marks lessened the possibility that the printing press would break the punctuation die. This is why large punctuation marks, like ! and ?, can go outside the quotation marks, but small ones like commas and periods are supposed to go inside. :D
Receive, and the double-letter words like committment and accommodate. :)
I used to have a hell of a time with "business" - I always wanted to put "buisness" - but then my dad pointed out that one is generally busy with busi-ness, and I've been fine ever since.
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Gramatically -- I don't know if this is a problem per se so much as a quirk -- I am incapable of writing a simple sentence. I use a ridiculous number of compound/complex sentences; I'll join every other sentence with a semicolon for no reason I can discern. I also use more dashes than necessary, and tend to repeat sentence beginnings (such as starting 2-3 consecutive sentences with "also" or "however.")
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I completely empathize! When I was working for the General Assembly my supervisor had to remind me numerous times that we were "dumbing down" the law and, thus, short, one subject sentences were okay, no, really! I was writing paragraph-long statements that, while perfectly grammatically correct, were on the fast-track to causing "reader fatigue." Somehow simple sentences seem like cheating, when writing, as they take less effort and just seem to end so abruptly.
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I also have a very difficult time writing simple sentences. I still wish that they'd have let me have my English degree as a B.S. :)
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Also, I clearly have a problem remembering to put the punctuation inside of quotation marks.
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That's not actually always correct anyway :)
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Punctuation is so haaaard. :)
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I used to have a hell of a time with "business" - I always wanted to put "buisness" - but then my dad pointed out that one is generally busy with busi-ness, and I've been fine ever since.
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