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    In 7 Grammar Rules You Should Really Pay Attention To, Ben Yagoda talks about the most common errors in writing today. These easy "oopsies" consist of subjunctives, parallelism, verb problems, pronoun problems, a 'dangling' conversation, semicolons, and words. When I was reading through the examples that were shown in the article, I was shocked to read this one:

"* The fish laid lay on the counter, fileted and ready to broil."

 

This one sounded extra silly to me, but maybe that's because I don't use the word 'fish' often. In all reality, the word IS pretty hard to use correctly when it comes to subject-verb agreement. I found most of the grammar rules that were mentioned pretty easy to understand though, but I still don't fully understand some situations. The picture I used depicts my reaction to the quoted correction above. It sounded a little off to me, but I can keep this in mind to improve my grammar in the future. This article opened my eyes to critiquing my own writing.