Or cross breads ? Or roll playing then either.
Sometimes it’s just the small things that press the bruise isn’t it? 😢
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Pedantic help please
This was on a menu I was looking at earlier.
"Buffet A £6.95
Selection of Sandwiches
Warm Sausage Rolls
Warm Vegetarian Quiche
Mixed "Leave" Salad Further down the menu was
Mixed Leaves Salad!
They both screamed wrong grammar at me, I know it was not right. I know this could have been " A mixed leaf salad" or A salad of mixed leaves.
I think it's something to do with how the individual words are used in the sentence as in nouns, verbs or adjectives, but my grammar is not good enough to be able to explain why.
Or is that "mixed" and "salad" are in a category of words that imply more than one of whatever it is.
Is it something like the difference between "Two bags full" or "Two bag fulls."
I sort of know when something is glaringly wrong but not why.
Please can someone explain to me. 
Definitely no Tiger bread! 
<Pats on the head>
"There, their, they're, dear"
<Ducks for cover>
Ah, but presumably that's only one toof!
Rooves
Hoof?
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