Button
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I quite likes them myself
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Where are the mistakes?I have read it several times.
Button- Location: Dover
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Try the final bullet point.
Ross Miller
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Plus the second last, bullet lists should not have full stops at the end of each item.
Also I would argue that that item makes little sense as school funding per-se does not got to pupils, so what will pupils receive a 5.5% rise in?
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Weird Granny Slater
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That train's going so fast it left its hyphen at Ashford.
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Button- Location: Dover
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It's quite a clever ploy, when you think about it: bung in a couple of deliberate typos so one can be sure that people read the darn thing, line by line, looking for them!
Brian Dixon
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the first paragrafe is wrong to, it was labour who stopped the torys from selling of the port.
Button- Location: Dover
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There has been a number of "sell-offs" mooted over the years, but that's more yer actual politics rather than grammar.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Clever .
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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#32. No Brian. It might have been if Gwyn had grasped the nettle when he was MP. But we never got a straight answer out of him as to Labour’s policy on port sell-offs.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Button wrote:There has been a number of "sell-offs" mooted...
Whoops! Singular interloper stirs up grammatical disharmony.
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Button- Location: Dover
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'A number' - singular, no? As in, for example, 'A herd of cows was crossing the road'.
Reginald Barrington
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You're a has-been Button!
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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I'd say plural, B. In your sentence, 'a number of' has the same function as 'several' or 'many'. So, e.g., 'there have been several "sell-offs" mooted...' For clarity, turn it around: 'several "sell-offs' have been mooted...' but surely not 'several "sell-offs' has been mooted...'
Now, I'm sure there's a typo in that Yellow Party leaflet somewhere...
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button- Location: Dover
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I see what you mean Granny, but I reckon I'm going to have to stick with my singular use of English! Actually, I was more worried about "sell-offs", but "sells-off" just sounded poncey....
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