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« on: November 06, 2007, 04:38:39 pm »
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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2007, 04:49:00 pm »
Manchester? hhhhmmmmm!

Come on Fran get em sorted ;D
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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2007, 05:17:18 pm »
Manchester? hhhhmmmmm!

Come on Fran get em sorted ;D

I don't think even The Wise One could sort out the Vicky Pollards of this country.

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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2007, 05:24:10 pm »
"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it."

"I think Camelot are giving people the wrong impression - the card doesn't say to look for a colder or warmer temperature, it says to look for a higher or lower number. Six is a lower number than 8. Imagine how many people have been misled."


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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2007, 05:27:55 pm »
Peter, does your reference to Education Standards in todays* Britain refer to the correct use of the apostrophe?  ;)  ;D  :-[
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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2007, 06:30:43 pm »
As it is but one chav, who is singularly possessed with woe, I would say that the application of the apostrophe is, in this instance, correct as written; although to avoid any possibility of confusion, it could have been expressed as "the woe of a chav".....

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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2007, 06:35:07 pm »
Manchester? hhhhmmmmm!

Come on Fran get em sorted ;D

Nothing to do with me  ::)

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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2007, 08:14:08 pm »
As it is but one chav, who is singularly possessed with woe, I would say that the application of the apostrophe is, in this instance, correct as written; although to avoid any possibility of confusion, it could have been expressed as "the woe of a chav".....

MG Mark

Alas Mark, I believe my learned colleague, Mr. A. Zarse, was making reference to the absence of the apostrophe in todays and not the correctly positioned apostrophe in chav's.

But I suppose it is an easy mistake for the poorly educated to make  :-\
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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2007, 10:11:04 am »
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the most grammatical correct sentance is

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English is a wonderful language

So it might, so it might....
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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2007, 08:22:32 pm »
Oh, I thought the question was about Peter's sentence, not the wafflings of some Mancunian Grauniad buffoon in the actual news article!  Teach me to read and type quickly.... ;)

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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2007, 01:32:59 pm »
I haven't a clue what you are on about.

Except, that is, there should be a capital at the start of the sentence and i.e. should have full stops.


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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2007, 01:35:35 pm »
And anything in exclamation marks should start with a capital. How are you going to fit us all in?
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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2007, 12:34:20 am »
It's nice to see that you have all been occupying yourselves in a constructive manner whilst I have been away- how's it going chaps?

Come on Fran, stick up for your fellow Mancs ;D
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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2007, 01:00:13 am »
And anything in exclamation marks should start with a capital. How are you going to fit us all in?

They look more like quote marks to me Bob...  ;D

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Re: Education Standards in todays Britain
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2007, 02:20:57 pm »

As my English master always told me, the most grammatical correct sentance is...


Surely if your English master had been any good he would have been telling you that it is the most grammatically correct sentance  ;)