Picture this. It was a beautiful sunny day and I was zooming along the dual carriageway when something glistened and caught my eye. It can’t be! It wasn’t, was it?

“Capital letters and full stops don’t matter any more!” announced my youngest nephew during a homeschool lesson. The news quickly filtered through the family grapevine. I gasped for breath and nearly fell off my chair.

My name’s Lucy, and poor spelling, punctuation and grammar make me very angry. Some promotional signage for a local healthy eating restaurant has been driving me mad.

Here are five pairs of words many of us use wrongly - and some handy rules to remember how to use them correctly.