Comments on: Why is Good Grammar No Longer in Our Good Graces? https://www.writerscookbook.com/good-grammar-good-graces/ Serving writers with all the ingredients they need to succeed Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:07:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: kiwi-ian https://www.writerscookbook.com/good-grammar-good-graces/#comment-5010 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:07:27 +0000 http://writerscookbook.com/?p=457#comment-5010 I would say that group B has 2 sub groups, Group B1 who know the rules but forget them, are prepared to accept changes etc, and Group B2 which contains most of the offenders, who know but don’t care, and couldn’t care less whether or not new rules come along because they are just too arrogant to accept that they may have made a mistake.

Sometimes, in fact usually, errors are simply careless and sloppy, and may even reflect on the writer. Why should we listen to his message if he’s too sloppy to phrase it correctly, in fact, that sloppiness may indicate that his research has also been sloppy.

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