In the article
7 grammar rules you should really pay attention to, author Ben Yagoda covers common mistakes that people make in regards to grammar. These include subjunctives, parallelisms, verb problems, meaning of words, 'dangling' conversations, and semicolon problems.
While reading this article I found myself able to read it pretty smoothly, but a couple examples caught my attention.
* I'm tired, so I need to go lay lie down.
This example helped me realize that I tend to use the wrong subject verb agreement quite a bit. To help
prevent myself from doing this less often, I think it would be good to read over my sentences in instances when I am confused.

A lot of the examples in the article seem like little things that I should already know, but when I started reading over all of them I realized that I never check to make sure if I have used them correctly.
The picture below describes my face when I read the examples in the article. I was shocked to see some of the things that I have been doing wrong when writing. Like using lie when I'm suppose to use lay!
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