As most of you know, I need to know how everything works, and am also a grammar nazi… This can probably be summarized best as “I like to be right.” I look A LOT of stuff up. Today, I was faced with using “toward” or “towards.” I always use “toward,” but I didn’t know why, or if it was even correct.
A quick Google found me the following site: http://thewritersbag.com/writing-rules/toward-or-towards
The quick of it? “Toward” is correct. Go me! “Towards” is very British, and dead in America.
Since this might be the first post in a series, I should probably catch you up with some of the more common mistakes people make:
- ”Anyways” isn’t a word – Serious peeve.
- ”Eachother” isn’t a word.
- How to use former and latter – For some reason, this has always tripped me up (and still does).
- Capitalizing cardinal directions.
- Capitalization of seasons – Too funny that the first respondent used “anyways.”
- Working with quotes – Aside from myself, I rarely come upon someone who uses punctuation around quotes correctly.
I’m assuming everyone reading my blog already has a grasp on “your vs. you’re,” “their vs. they’re vs. there,” “its and it’s,” “too vs. to,” and “affect vs. effect” so I won’t bother with links to them. If you don’t, please stop reading my blog; we can’t be friends 
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