I saw this in an email message.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> Explanation:<\/strong> One place where this lack of courtesy appears is in word order.<\/p>\n In particular, some speakers and writers put themselves before others in lists. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n I don’t know whether these writers and speakers were “absent that day in English class” or whether they’ve forgotten what they learned, but the standard, which is based on courtesy, is to put others before oneself in a list<\/em>.<\/p>\n Rewriting the above examples, we get the following:<\/p>\n Solution:<\/strong> I saw this in an email message. Problem: The writer incorrectly put himself first. Explanation: There seems to be a growing lack of courtesy in spoken and written American English. One place where this lack of courtesy appears is in word order. In particular, some speakers and writers put themselves before others in lists. Here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-english-blunders"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe writer incorrectly put himself first.<\/p>\n
\nThere seems to be a growing lack of courtesy in spoken and written American English.<\/p>\n\n
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