Grammar 101, ... or, pet peeves Options

[agrippa]

Here's a place for us to bore eachother to death about grammar. I'll go first.

I. POSSESSIVES AND PLURALS

Most nouns are made plural by the addition of 's' or 'es'.
computer -> computers
house -> houses

Some nouns have irregular plurals.
mouse -> mice
fish -> fish

A noun is never made plural with an apostrophe.

The apostrope and 's' are used to show possession.
Ron's (belonging to Ron)
Ginny's (belonging to Ginny)

However, pronouns have their own possessive forms:
his (belonging to him)
hers (belonging to her)
theirs (belonging to them)
its (belonging to it; it's means 'it is')

[ronsmyman]

My biggest pet peeve is when people use the word further when they should say farther. Farther describes physical distance, whereas further is more of a mental or organizational or transitional distance, like furthermore.

Instead of saying "He walked further down the tracks as fear began to envelope him."

You should say "He walked farther down the tracks as fear began to envelope him."

I might not have explained this well enough, but it's like trying to explain the difference between good and well, I know what it is but I have the hardest time explaining it to others.