Let’s check out incorrect grammar that’s been found in books, below :)
Please read below for the ones I’ve found, so far:
Defining the problem: In this case, you must compare apples to apples. The comparison is between two subjects. The subject of an individual is “I”.
To make things more simpler: if you swipe the locations of the two pronouns/subjects within this sentence, would it be grammatically correct if you said “Me is more popular than you?”
To fix it:The answer is no; therefore, this sentence needs to change the subject “me” to “I”.
Let’s change “me” to “I”
Defining the problem: So the person is asking who performed a specific action. This “who” is the subject, in third person (he, she, it, they). Therefore, when following it up to specifically who it was, he should use the third person (in this case, “he”).
“Him” is an object pronoun that is used as the object of a verb or preposition in a sentence.
It is used to refer to a male person who is the recipient of an action or the object of a preposition.
This sentence is asking if two object pronouns did something.
To fix it: A way that you can easily figure this out, is this: which one would you say – 1.) “Did HE do it?” or 2.) “Did HIM do it?” (Hint - the answer is “He”)… That easily resolves any previous confusion. 😉
Hmm… “Him” or “He”?
Defining the problem:
“Himself” is a reflexive pronoun.
In this sentence, there are two clauses.
In the second clause, Bruno was assessing what Shmuel had mentioned, and when Bruno thought that the same thing had happened to himself, he is the implied subject of the second clause; therefore, we need to add “self” since the subject (Bruno) is reflecting upon himself and using a reflexive pronoun.
To fix it: “Shmuel looked very sad when he told this story and Bruno didn’t know why; it didn’t seem like such a terrible thing to him, and after all much the same thing had happened to himself.”
Use reflexive pronoun (“himself” instead of just “him)
Defining the problem: “Awful” is an adjective, or a descriptive word. Within this sentence, the subject is being called “awful”, in addition to being “quiet”.
The correct way to fix this sentence is change “awful” to “awfully.” “Awfully” is an adverb, which is a word that modifies an adjective (in this case, “quiet”).
This modification changes the subject to being called essentially extremely quiet.
To fix it: “You’re awfully quiet.”
Change the adjective to an adverb
Defining the problem: This is just an accidental misspelling of a word.
To fix it: She glanced down for a split second; the “l” and “i” were swapped places to make it a different and incorrect word.
Use reflexive pronoun (“himself” instead of just “him)
Defining the problem: There is no preposition in this sentence; it is unclear if the weekly allowance is raised “to” fifteen cents, or “by” fifteen cents.
As this was written in 1964, either one could be the case, since this is written in the context of a young child.
So a preposition of “to” or “by” would be a much clearer sentence.
To fix it: “I’ll raise your allowance to fifteen cents a week if you’ll take out the trash.”
Add a preposition between “allowance” and “fifteen”
Defining the problem: The way this sentence is phrased is a little unclear and isn’t exact. It’s not certain if the nurse who is assigned to the patient is also assigned to Nurse Ramirez.
We will include “both” in the beginning of the second clause, and will switch the order of the two nurses mentioned. This makes it certain who the two nurses (mentioned in the first clause) are
To fix it: "Two nurses, both Nurse Ramirez and the one assigned to me, came over to my bed and check all my monitors.”