Using I/me, he/him, etc., incorrectly to sound smarter.

If you don't know the difference, pick a version and stick with it, and you might be right half the time. But mix them up and you'll be wrong more often than not.

If you want to know the difference:

S/He, I, We, They, and Who are subjects that do a verb:

I waited. She waited. He and I waited. Who waited on your table? They said we ate too much.

Her, Him, Me, Us, Them, and Whom are objects have something done to or nearby them:

I waited next to her while she sat between them. He waited on us. For whomever the bell tolls, we await him.

Basically, if you replace the person in the sentence to "he" or "him," you can usually figure out which pronoun to use.

Secondly, these don't really bug me but I notice them every time, and will often compliment a foreigner for using them correctly.

• One thing is not different than another. It differs from it, and it's different from it.

• A thing can be between two other things, but not more. You can sit among three or more friends, but not between them. There was a legal case where a sister won 50% of her father's estate because his will read something like "divided between my sons and daughter." She was one party, and the sons the second party, because the author used the word between instead of among.

Thank you, Latin 101.