ON THE SUBJECT OF GRAMMAR . . . .

[redfirecracker]

IT'S CALLED PROOFREADING, MORONS.

Please keep in mind that running Spellcheck and Grammarcheck is not the be-all, end-all of writing. This is why everyone should have a beta-reader.

Things that drive me BONKERS when I'm reading:

We "make do" with what we have in the fridge, or the trunk of the Impala, as the case might be. You "make due" an

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[anonymous]

As a professional copyeditor and proofreader, I'm pleased to find somebody on the internet taking this stuff seriously.
On the other hand, what you're writing about isn't grammar, it's spelling, and you're wrong ab out "just deserts" (look it up).
So: nine out of ten.

[redfirecracker]

Ha! Nothing like going on a rant about stuff like this and then getting slapped in the face with one's own errors!

Wow. See, there's an excellent example of bad learning. I was trained all my life to write "just desserts", and that's incorrect.

Thanks for pointing out my mistakes. You are also correct in that I am chiefly complaining about spelling; the only grammar issue is the one about nouns/ prounouns/ cases.