EDIT: you guys have dug up some truly horrible pisstakes :D Thank you for those.

To the serious folk - relax a little. This is Mildly Infuriating, not I'm dying if this doesn't stop. As a non-native speaker I was taught a certain way to use the language. The rules were not written down by me, nor the teachers - it was done by the native folk. Peace!

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    @TheEntity some are, like the Prepositions rule, which was invented in the 19th century by some idiots who wished English was more like Latin.

    Some are just people making observations about what everyone habitually already does, like Adjectival Order (e.g big brown dog not brown big dog).

    Native speakers never have to be taught that rule because it just “feels right” since it’s how our societies talk.