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EPIC. Grammar. FAIL. FAIL. FAIL. Grammar FAIL. Here’s how it works: A picture or a block of text will appear. Your job is to find the grammar error (sometimes there are several.)
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Grammar FAIL Here’s how it works: A picture or a block of text will appear. Your job is to find the grammar error (sometimes there are several.) The first person two to find the error and explain WHY its it’s wrong gets a point for their his or her team. If you find more than one error, you can get a point for each one. Let’s play!
Grammar FAIL Bad Signs DONE DONE Bad Song Lyrics FAIL FAIL DONE Even Worser Signs DONE Worstest Song Lyrics FAIL FAIL DONE DONE Bad Book Passages Random Badness FAIL FAIL
Bad Signs • Find the grammar error in a sign. (Yeah, these are all real. Sad, right?) 2 3 4 1 5 8 9 6 7
Even Worser Signs • Find the grammar error in a sign. (Seriously. Someone needs to start checking these things before plastering them up on a wall.) 2 3 4 1 5 8 9 6 7
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in these published books. (Yep, these are real. But in the authors’ defense, if you write a few hundred-thousand words, you’re going to make a few mistakes.) 3 2 1 4 6 7 5 8 10 11 9
Bad Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics. (It’s okay. You can still like the song even though the grammar is terrible.) 3 2 4 1 6 5 7
Worstest Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics. (Apparently famous rock stars don’t check with their English teacher before recording their next hit song. Weird.) 3 2 4 1 6 5 7
Random Badness • Find the grammar error in these random pictures. (And always remember to be REALLY careful to double-check the grammar in your design before you get a tattoo!) 3.1 0 57 12 -7 Q 92 46 19 ? 131
Bad Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Bad Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Bad Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Bad Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Bad Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Bad Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Bad Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Bad Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Bad Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Even Worser Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Even Worser Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Even Worser Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Even Worser Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Even Worser Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Even Worser Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Even Worser Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Even Worser Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Even Worser Signs Find the grammar error in this sign: DONE
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in this passage from THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins (second printing): "Well, you better learn fast. You've got about as much charm as a dead slug," say Haymitch. DONE
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in this passage from DARKWOOD by M. E. Breen (first printing): "I never figured it out, but I think its a message from Mother and Father ... ." DONE
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in this passage from WORLD WAR Z by Max Brooks (first printing): ... and if there was even the slightest chance that dead bodies were being reanimated as ravenous killing machines, you dig and dig until you stike the absolute truth. DONE
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in this passage from ECLIPSE by Stephenie Meyer: He left me alone to get dressed, and I appreciated the chance to think. Somehow, my plan for last night had gone horribly awry, and I needed come to grips with the consequences. Though I’d given back the hand-me-down ring as soon as I could do it without hurting his feelings, my left hand felt heavier, like it was still in place, just invisible. DONE
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in this passage from BONESHAKER by Cherie Priest (first edition): "It's better to have them and not need them, then need them and not have them." DONE
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in this passage from THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins: Keep looking. Yes, this is my only chance, But then, another thought hits me, and the surge of anger that follows brings me to me senses. Haymitch! He could send me water! DONE
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in this passage from HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX by J. K. Rowling: “Hagrid can’t have left, can he?” “I’ll be quite glad if he has.” said Luna. “He isn’t a very good teacher, is he?” DONE
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in this passage from WORLD WAR Z by Max Brooks (first printing): It is the "magic hour" for energy-independent buildings like the Malpica, that time of the day when it's photovoltaic windows capture the setting sun with their almost imperceptible magenta hue. DONE
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in this passage from TWILIGHT by Stephenie Meyer: The birds were quiet, too, the drops increasing in frequency, so it must be raining above. The ferns stood higher than my head, now that I was seated, and I knew someone could walk by on the path, three feet away, and not see me. DONE
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in this passage from THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins: DONE “I’ll get a very bad score,” I say. “Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones. For all they know you could be hiding your talents to get a low score on purpose. People use that strategy,” said Portia.
Bad Book Passages • Find the grammar error in this passage from ECLIPSE by Stephenie Meyer: “Edward, this is very important to me. I am going to do this right.” “Who’s definition of right?” “Mine.” DONE
Bad Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from THE BEATLES: She’s got a ticket to ride, But she don’t care DONE
Bad Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from BRYAN ADAMS: She says her love for me could never die But that'd change if she ever found out about you and I Oh, but her love is cold It wouldn't hurt her if she didn't know DONE
Bad Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from JUSTIN TIMERLAKE: What you did to me Ain't that the way it goes When you cheated girl, my heart bleeded girl. So it goes without saying that you left me feeling hurt DONE
Bad Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from KoЯn: DONE A lonely life Where no one understands you But don't give up Don't give up because the music do
Bad Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from CAGE THE ELEPHANT: There ain't no rest for the wicked Money don't grow on trees I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed And there ain'tnothin' in this world for free DONE
Bad Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from RIHANNA: I wasn't looking for nobody when you looked my way DONE
Bad Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from SNOW PATROL: If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world? DONE
Worstest Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from DR. DRE and EMINEM: And when your album sales wasn't doing too good... Who's the Doctor they told you to go see? Y'all better listen up closely DONE
Worstest Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from THE FRAY: You never left me no messages You never sent me no letters You got some kind of nerve Taking all I want DONE
Worstest Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from ELVIS PRESLEY: They said you was high class Well, that was just a lie Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit And you ain't no friend of mine DONE
Worstest Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from JORDIN SPARKS: And the hours move too slow And I just wish that you were holding me near You know it just don't feel the same when you're gone DONE
Worstest Song Lyrics • Find the grammar error in these song lyrics from FERGIE: And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket But I've got to get a move on with my life It's time to be a big girl now And big girls don't cry DONE