A lot of errors

[Immuno-guy]

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Don't get me wrong; I make plenty of mistakes but looking at all these posts amazes me. We are applying to dental school. We are aspiring for a doctorate (doctor is from the latin word for 'teacher' by the way). Our spelling and grammar ought to be nearly perfect. On that note:

"A lot" is TWO words. Always.

An easy way to remember this is to consider, would you ever write "alittle" ? Then don't write alot.

I just performed a search in this forum for the correct and the incorrect form.
The results are nothing short of embarrassing.

109000 - a lot (correct!)
25700 alot (incorrect!)

This means that of the 134700 mentions of this term only 81% were correct.

I know it's the internet, but we should be exemplars of basic skills.

Take care with your personal statements. Best of luck.

 

[OceanBlue]

this is alot more boring than I thought!

Don't get me wrong; I make plenty of mistakes but looking at all these posts amazes me. We are applying to dental school. We are aspiring for a doctorate (doctor is from the latin word for 'teacher' by the way). Our spelling and grammar ought to be nearly perfect. On that note:

"A lot" is TWO words. Always.

An easy way to remember this is to consider, would you ever write "alittle" ? Then don't write alot.

I just performed a search in this forum for the correct and the incorrect form.
The results are nothing short of embarrassing.

109000 - a lot (correct!)
25700 alot (incorrect!)

This means that of the 134700 mentions of this term only 81% were correct.

I know it's the internet, but we should be exemplars of basic skills.

Take care with your personal statements. Best of luck.

 

[litldime]

😴😴😴
sorey dude, we have mo thingz to do dan spel check...
-ld

 

[Mackchops]

Their are going to be alot of people that dont think its funny.

 

[Vapor1122]

That doesn't bother me so much as people using the wrong homonym.

 

[skyskier]

I think someone needs to find something better to do with their time than search for grammar mistake statistics and chastise anonymous dental school applicants. Take....Luck!

 

[DDS4tehwin]

Couldn't help myself.

 

[xplayer2885]

Its summer yo, get out fun, an live life!!!! Granted i have just started getting my feet wet with the DAT. But its bad enough we have too miss out on most our tweenties due too higher levels of education😀

 

[JavadiCavity]

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