This is my first attempt at creating training at WA so I hope that you will forgive any faux pas!

I was a primary school teacher and specialised in teaching five to seven year olds which means I need to apologise in advance in case I slip back into 'little people' teaching mode.

Anyway, here goes.

How many times have you looked at a piece of writing and a mistake jumped out at you?

Whether a spelling, punctuation or grammar error, they shoot out and hit me in the face.

Kyle has created excellent training for creating content for your website and I'm following every word. The problem I find though is we are encouraged to use a natural and conversational tone which is good but I don't think that should mean our grammar standards should drop.

In my opinion, a good, interesting and conversational piece of writing can lose credibility with these errors.

Okay, I may be the only person in the world who feels this way but just in case I'm not alone I've put together some of the 'clangers' I've come across recently.

I hope that they will help at least one person avoid these pitfalls. If nothing else, some of them are amusing so they may entertain you.

Please feel free to correct any errors in my text and I'd love some feedback to know if I'm on the right track or not.

Thanks for reading



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Damien Lane Premium
Nice clarification...embarrased to admit wrote 2 of these pages down....
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Jackiex4 Premium
LOL. Thanks Damien. It's good to know I'm on the right track. I'm pleased it may help. Jackie x
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Damien Lane Premium
Just been thinking about this JGX4...

You could quite easily expand on this training.

No doubt this could be part 1 of xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / or until you tire of writing gremer articles ;)
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Jackiex4 Premium
Thanks again Damien. I have some more to go. I just wasn't sure if it would be useful to anyone. x
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Damien Lane Premium
@ JGX4.....hmm, out of the ~2 billion online, I'd say about 98% of them. Must remember only a very small fraction of these users have English as a 1st language (to give you an idea - only 375 million people in the world have English as their 1st language & many of these would find your help useful. Let alone the other ~ 90% of online users).
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Jenna7 Premium
Thanks for this training. Great reminders. :)
Double negatives drive me crazy too. Ain't got no time for that! Lol.
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Jackiex4 Premium
Hi Jen. LOL. Thanks for the comment. x
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Christene9 Premium
Thanks for adding the training. I will certainly benefit from it. English is not my first language and it is always a headache to write my posts perfectly.
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Jackiex4 Premium
Thank you for your comment and I'm so pleased it will help. It's scary when you don't know how people are going to react. Thanks again. Jackie x
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AdamsOnLine Premium
I agree with you, JG, that glaring misspellings and grammatical errors are definitely show stoppers when I am trying to read something. Sometimes I need to read a sentence 3 or 4 times to get the author's meaning. If this occurs too frequently, I just stop reading and go on to something else..Because the human brain can read an article that is all misspelled, I guess that it should not bother me, but it does. I believe that a better proofreading policy would help most of these writers. Your information is very good.
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Jackiex4 Premium
Thank you so much for the comments. I appreciate it. We joined WA at about the same time. I hope it is going well for you. Jackie x
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bullet Premium
Good stuff Jackie, a lot of people get these wrong.
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Jackiex4 Premium
Hi Dave, thanks for answering. I was afraid I'd be here all on my lonesome and that would be nothing to do with Spurs!!
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