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Presented by the Writing Lab in honor of National Grammar Day 2012.

The following examples are not grammatically correct as this carton of milk is.

The UWF Graduate School offers advanced degrees including, master's degrees in 26 different programs with more than 50 academic specializations, two specialist degrees and a doctorate in education with seven specializations.

Were open? Too bad for the people who arrived at 3 a.m. to see that the restaurant were open but isnt anymore.

My hot what?

There are several errors here. The most noteworthy ones, though, are an unnecessary comma and the colon after such as.

In addition to simply being random, this jar indicates that gum owns something money maybe?

In case you were wondering, colons should go inside quotation marks.

Something is definitely missing in this example. Quotation marks? A semicolon? Also, when did water start taking showers?

First line of Lady GaGas song Edge of Glory: There aint no reason you and me should be alone tonight.

Missing comma. Misspelled word. Incorrect capitalization.

Yes, this picture was real.

One Sign, Two Errors

What a compliment!

We did not even mark all the errors.