Do You Mentally Correct Others’ Grammar?

A reader asked for my position on his question at left.

Of course.  And often, it’s not just “in my head”; I shout it aloud.

On CNN just now: “Someone with whom they’re speaking to,” should have been, “Someone to whom they’re speaking.”

Other things that get my attention on a routine basis:

Disagreement between subject and verb, e.g., “There’s so many changes in our tastes in music.”

Disregarding the subjunctive mood, e.g., “If I was president, I’d …”

Sure, there are newscasters who make second- or third-grade-level grammatical mistakes, like “Those off-course bombs could have went anywhere.”  But these truly horrific errors are rare, as (I suspect) producers of these shows immediately ban the offenders from the airwaves.