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A grammar lesson needed.

49 Terrafirma1

A Brain Teaser

10 Aka

Deserve or Need?

9 janeainsworth

Literally

55 whenim64

OTT corporate speak

13 Ana

Kindle Daily Deal

8 petallus

Double negatives

3 HollyDaze

Simply English.

1 annodomini

Historical present tense.

24 Atqui

Going forward!

179 Ariadne

It really gets up my goat!

164 Anne58

The apostrophe and Mid-Devon council

39 MamaCaz

Words and their value

2 Grannyknot

"Can I have a word?"

57 soop

Train station

19 thatbags

Could/Should have.....

3 rosesarered

Cola advert

48 Grannyeggs

The Oxford Comma

56 MamaCaz

Jealous for envious

38 Anne58

Self-made literature

5 Ariadne

Please Miss

8 Ana

Is this correct?

23 grumppa

Modern spelling and text speak

49 Ana

not sure where to put this........

6 Flowerofthewest

Prolific authors

4 JessM

Exasperated!

73 annodomini

American spelling

26 absent

Putting pedantry in its place

20 absent

Anyone know what this means?

21 janeainsworth

Decimate

7 absent

Elizabeth Windsor and the Queen's English

3 kittylester

"Save our children from the grammar tribe"

9 Lilygran

lingerie

57 feetlebaum

Thunder and lightning

15 Anne58

No problem

10 Tegan

Single person plural

48 Bags

Tennis bat

17 j08

On the BBC News!

7 gracesmum

Fathers' or Father's

8 Ella46

Misplacement of adverbs and adjectives.

1 mrsmopp

Love this one!

4 mrsmopp

Facebook

41 janerowena

My sister's one blew up

19 Stansgran

Like

23 Hunt

"Textspeak" ;

90 annodomini

Language is constantly - er

11 janerowena

Good English really does matter

3 Bags

Another remarkable use of the apostrophe

19 gracesmum

Economy must be on the up

2 york46

Grammar rules you knowingly ignore

6 Eleanorre