What grammatical quirk do you overuse?

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: preslove
You're moms a slut.

Yore sew coup.

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: palswim
I tend to stubbornly stick to my side of questionable rules, and base my interpretation on what works best for me. It's a very self-centric way of thinking, I know.

• When indicating the possessive of a singular noun that ends in 's', I keep the apostrophe-s construction (instead of dropping the 's'). E.g. For goodness's sake! I stole Chris's bike.
• With quotations, I add punctuation on the outside if the text I quote couldn't stand alone without it. E.g. He went to go "drop a deuce". By "nice", do you mean ugly?
  [*]Many times, I would rather reconstruct my sentences into unfamiliar forms than end them with prepositions or use the passive voice.
• I also over-use semi-colons and parentheses.

On a side note, I can't stand unmatched parentheses! The programmer side of me simply cannot let that sentence compile!

"This is the kind of impertinence up with which I shall not put."

 

[IronWing]

I like to use semicolons to link what might really be two sentences; I really like semicolons.

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: dighn
parenthesis (often nested (seriously))

This.

 

[Fenixgoon]

ellipses and parentheses...definitely