{"id":346,"date":"2013-03-10T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T09:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2016-10-02T04:40:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T04:40:49","slug":"grammar-gaffs-a-guest-post-by-susan-szydlowski-gentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/grammar-gaffs-a-guest-post-by-susan-szydlowski-gentry\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar Gaffs&#8211;A Guest Post by Susan Szydlowski-Gentry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-347\" alt=\"guestblogger\" src=\"http:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/guestblogger.jpg\" width=\"261\" height=\"193\" \/>Many people use the terms, would of, could of and should of, which have been derived from the contractions, would&#8217;ve, could&#8217;ve and should&#8217;ve. What they should be writing is, would have, could have and should have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another misuse is the phrase, &#8220;I could care less.&#8221; How much less could you care of that certain situation? Personally, I couldn&#8217;t care less.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And finally, can&#8217;t is the contraction for the words can and not, which, by the way, should never be two words when side by side. I cannot understand why this is so difficult to understand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Okay, I&#8217;m done venting now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people use the terms, would of, could of and should of, which have been derived from the contractions, would&#8217;ve, could&#8217;ve and should&#8217;ve. What they should be writing is, would have, could have and should have. Another misuse is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/grammar-gaffs-a-guest-post-by-susan-szydlowski-gentry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[89,90,112],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-grammar","tag-guest-blogger","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}