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It never leaves you
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Sharron | Report | 17 Mar 2015 08:53 |
I had what I was always told was the benefit of a 1960s grammar school education. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 17 Mar 2015 09:01 |
I totally agree Sharron....not much attention given to grammar these days. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 17 Mar 2015 09:08 |
Grrrrr!! |
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 17 Mar 2015 10:03 |
A daughter now in her early fifties told me once that she never heard the word "grammar" until she began French aged about 11! And even her generation never had the exercises of "parsing" and "precis". |
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DIZZI | Report | 17 Mar 2015 10:13 |
OH HECK DON'T READ ANY OF MINE,NEVER DID GRAMMAR,THINK IT MUST HAVE BEEN ON A DAY |
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Sharron | Report | 17 Mar 2015 10:25 |
I had many, many of those days. Didn't like it, went somewhere else. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 17 Mar 2015 10:30 |
...and I bet you never said, nor say, 'should of' :-D |
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DIZZI | Report | 17 Mar 2015 10:31 |
ONLY LIKED ART AND HISTORY. |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 17 Mar 2015 10:35 |
:-D |
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Sharron | Report | 17 Mar 2015 10:38 |
Somebody once said I was the only person they had ever heard who always swore with correct grammar, even when I was drunk. |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 17 Mar 2015 11:12 |
:-D :-D :-D |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 17 Mar 2015 11:27 |
You're right about it never leaving you Sharron. I'm neurotic about the use of the apostrophe. It was almost the first lesson when I started grammar school at age 10 because there were three apostrophes in the name of the school! |
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Sharron | Report | 17 Mar 2015 11:40 |
Doesn't free mean free of charge? So, how can anything be supplied for free (of charge) ? |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 17 Mar 2015 12:06 |
"absolutely" - for me, this has become the most irritating word in the English language - everyone seems to say it :-S |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 17 Mar 2015 14:38 |
Just heard one that annoys me |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 17 Mar 2015 15:11 |
.....and the oh, so pretentious, who start a sentence with 'So' :-| |
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Dermot | Report | 17 Mar 2015 15:35 |
'So, a while back one of the contestants on Frank Skinner’s ‘Room 101’ chose the word ‘so’ as her pet hate. So she didn’t mean the word ‘so’ in every use and context, only the way that people had started to use 'so' at the beginning of a sentence, in response to a question. |
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Sue C | Report | 17 Mar 2015 15:39 |
Hear this all the time.....something being different to something else. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 17 Mar 2015 15:48 |
DERMOT!!!!! :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 17 Mar 2015 15:50 |
I hear a lot of young people using "like" numerous times when trying to explain something. |