Ka2azman wrote:
Your very first sentence should have been confined to present tense of "write" because "wrote" disagrees the whole concept of the sentence of being in the present. As they are writing it, they are not reading or correcting the mistakes as they are doing it. That requires present tense. They wrote it because you now see it as past tense. You were talking of their actions not yours.
This goes to show we all are fallible. The true meaning of something being written is to convey thought, not punctuation, spellings or any other grammatical mistake. It sure is nice to read correct English though.
I prefer to see written ideas etc., within reason even with imperfections, having no reason to call out the person because of the mistakes. Now if I were tutoring them, that would be a different situation.
I feel though, you made many errors within your own writing for some unknown reason on purpose, and more than the "too" and what I pointed out. e.g. Talking about run-on sentences, then doing it.
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I actually made fewer errors than I intended to. The underlying purpose of the rant was not to correct anyone, as numerous responders have taken the opertunity to do. It was to stimulate conversation, which it obviously did, and to make people laugh, which from many of the responses it got, it also achieved.