It’s glorious to see you again, good-grammar fans! The Grammar Cop was very diligent in amassing a mess o’ frightful flubs to present to you this week!

1. They go through all the decades of reggae; they give you the whole gambit of…
2. Nearly everyone on the street streaming past her is also wearing face masks.
3. Kids will come in hoardes and run after the dog to pet him…

The corrections:

1. Were you stumped? Well pout no longer! It’s an attack of wrong-word-itis: the word “gambit” is the wrong one. The writer should have used gamut. Check ’em out here and here.
2. Is each person wearing more than one face mask? No. Therefore the sentence should read: Nearly everyone on the street streaming past her is also wearing a face mask.
3. Here we have an example of a misused homophone. The word should be hordes, not “hoardes.” (There is actually no such word as “hoardes.” The plural of “hoard” – meaning to over-collect or stash things, or a huge collection of stuff – is hoards without the e.)

Let’s hope this hoard of bad writing hasn’t ruined your day!  Take two ibuprofen tablets – but please don’t call the Grammar Cop in the morning – she sleeps in! 😁