I have never really learned proper grammar. Anything I know about grammar I picked up from learning a foreign language. Next year, however, I get to take a wonderful pedagogy class on the teaching of grammar.
As an English major, I am constantly asked to edit the papers of friends. The biggest problem I see in papers--even papers by other English majors--is sentence fragments. Fragments drive me batty.
The other thing that drives me nuts doesn't necessarily have anything to do with bad grammar. BAD SPELLING DRIVES ME CRAZY. It's as if people are too lazy to spell correctly. How hard is it to open up a dictionary and look up a word to know if you've spelled it right? How hard is it to copy and paste what you've written into Word and run the spellcheck?
Okay, I think I'm done.
Did I spell everything right?