1% infraction list

1% for each infraction:

• There/their/they’re
• You’re/your
• To/too
• Not capitalizing a proper noun like Nigeria or Belgium or Shell Oil or The Holocaust
• Not capitalizing the first word in a sentence
• Not putting a period at the end of a sentence
• “loose” instead of “lose”
• “defiantly” instead of “definitely”
• “alot” instead of “a lot”
• “barley” instead of “barely”
• Misspelling the name of a country or a people – “the Belgiums” is totally unacceptable
• Things that spell check would have caught, like “rtes” instead of “rates”
• “King Leopard” instead of “King Leopold” – sometimes spell check is wrong, guys
• “of” instead of “off”
• “I” instead of “if” or “in”
• “f” instead of “if” or “of”
• “board” instead of “bored”
• “go” instead of “got”