Faulty Usage

Language changes all the time and so does the use of words. The words I'm listing for you below are words that will probably someday enter formal usage. At this point, they're non-standard, no matter how often you will hear them used in journalism and business circles, both of which use a more informal English.

Impactful, Impacting, to be impacted by: Impact is a noun, not a verb, and it never takes the suffixes "ing" or "ful." Even so, you'll hear impact used frequenly as if it were. For example, this sentence is a common usage of "impact": "We were all greatly impacted by the news of her death."

The writer is using the noun as if it were a verb. This isn't an outright grammatical flaw, but it's inelegant usage, especially when one considers the unpleasant imagery of impacted teeth and other forms of impaction in the body.

Correct this usage error by placing the word "impact" in noun form:
Your ideas have had a great impact on my thinking.

The most important impact of this finding will be that schools will be better funded in the future.

Relatable: There are many words that can take the "able" ending without a loss of decorum or elegance; "relate" isn't one of them. Instead of saying something is relatable, say it is easy to relate to.

Try and/Try to: Try to notice whether you write the phrase "try and take as much as possible." If you do, notice that the proper usage is "try to take as much as possible."

Exact Same: These words are used together for emphasis in informal speech, but in formal and even semi-formal writing and speech, just choose one.