mistake #28 - Unless you're talking about the food..

I hate to be THAT person again, but one of my classmates used the wrong homonym for this phrase. It should instead be "a bad rap."

mistake #27 - A Provocative Essay

I don't think this violates any grammar rules, but it's just unclear - and therefore very funny. This FML user wrote, "Nude pictures of me and my paper due tomorrow are on the laptop." One question: was the paper nude too?

mistake #26 - If only love could keep it alive..

From Gawker: Employees waited for Hearst, not "Hearts," to make its decision. Just a simple typo, but in journalism, I'd say it's not okay to mess that up.

Full text: 'We Designated a Dog as Employee of the Month'

mistake #25 - this shirt "make's" me want to hurt myself

I work at an Old Navy store back home. While I was folding a table of graphic tees over break, I came across this little gem in the boys' section. For some reason, the designer chose to make "get's" possessive instead of leaving it as "gets." As my mom tells her students, if you don't know if you should use an apostrophe or not, leave it out, and it will probably be right.

This is the third or fourth shirt I've found at Old Navy with incorrect grammar, and ironically, most of the grammar mishaps end up on children's clothing. Last summer, we had a onesie for infants that had a military design and featured the word "sargent," an incorrect spelling of "sergeant." Thanks, Old Navy, for teaching incorrect grammar to our nation's youth.

Direct link: Boys Snack Graphic Tees

mistake #24

Not a very good scan, but the correction's in the caption under the photo. Ben Cooper is listed as "vice president of student life-elect," but he should be listed as "vice president-elect of student life." Because "vice president" is the actual title and "student life" just clarifies the position, the "elect" should fall after the position title itself.

mistake #23

I found this little nugget of grammatical incorrectness in my e-mail inbox. Aside from the terrible all-caps aspect of the message, the offender assigned an apostrophe to the wrong word.

This should say, "Bring your friends and your friends' friends," the friends of your friends.

mistake #22

I found this little gem while looking through the Des Moines Register archives in search of an article for another class. The district's fund balance is its rainy day fund. "Its" is already possessive - "it's" is just a contraction.

mistake #21

We all love Twitter - but it seems that one Midwest Living writer had some trouble with possession. Ours is already possessive and doesn't need an apostrophe. You would never write "your's," would you?

Link to page: Midwest Living on Twitter

mistake #20

From the Campus Calendar on blueView - "Perspective" should be "Prospective." "Perspective" just doesn't make sense.

mistake #19

Last time I checked, Facebook had more than one user. User's should be users' - plural possessive.