{"id":1619,"date":"2013-11-18T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/blog\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2019-04-22T06:27:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:27:17","slug":"7-grammar-rules-everyone-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kibin.com\/essay-writing-blog\/7-grammar-rules-everyone-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Grammar Rules That Everyone Should Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who needs good grammar anyway?  Grammar rules are so boring to learn and totally pointless! Isn’t it good enough that people can understand what you’re trying to say?<\/p>\n

But wait! Did you know that having good grammar increases your chances for finding love<\/a>? And knowing proper grammar rules can mean the difference between a well-paying job and, well, no job at all. Like it or not, people judge you based on your grammar use (especially if you’re terrible at it). Speaking or writing without the proper use of grammar rules can make you come across as uneducated and unreliable. I don’t care if you have your PhD or if you’re a musical prodigy!<\/p>\n

What if I had started this blog post by writing, “Hey everyone wha’ts up? Hears a post for all of you if your interested in lerning about how to right using good grammar lets get starting!”<\/p>\n

You’d likely hit the back button as quickly as possible. Thanks to poor grammar in this sentence, my message has become untrustworthy. That sentence may be a bit of an exaggeration, but from my experience editing papers at Kibin, I know for a fact that bad grammar like this happens. And it happens a lot.<\/p>\n

Grammar is a vast topic. To narrow it down, I asked some of the other Kibin editors to tell me about their top grammar peeves. Let’s get started!<\/p>\n

Grammar Rules You Should Learn #1: The Difference Between Affect<\/i> and Effect<\/i><\/h2>\n

Peeve submitted by Naomi T. (that’s me)<\/p>\n

“The special effects in that movie really affected me!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I must admit that I was once guilty of mixing these two words up too. But, now that I know the difference, the misuse of affect<\/i> and effect<\/i> really affects me poorly. In other words, it drives me crazy.<\/p>\n

Let’s settle the score on the difference between affect<\/i> and effect<\/i> once and for all.<\/p>\n

Effect<\/i> is a noun<\/b>. (Remember, a noun is a person, place or thing.)<\/p>\n

Here are some examples of effect<\/i> in a sentence:<\/p>\n