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[-] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

What an absolute piece of shit. Could of destroyed someone's life. I wonder if that was the first time.

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

"Of" never follows could/should/would. Ever.

[-] cowfodder@unilem.org 4 points 1 year ago

Should "of" ever follow "would" or "could"?

[-] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

It could, of course, be done. If you ignored punctuation.

[-] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah to be honest I don't know why I write it like that. I know it's not right, outlook corrects me almost every day. One of those weird things my brain does, maybe a habit from when I was a kid idk. I do it without realizing.

[-] OhTheMoose@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

To extend what TheGreenGolem said, what you have understood as "could of" is actually a contraction of the words "could" and "have" into "could've"

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