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A Mug's Guide to Grammar

June 14, 2013 3 Comments

This is our latest WIP. Do you have any grammar grumbles that you think we should address?





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David Flint
David Flint

October 23, 2021

She jumped off, of the wall, next time she could just jump off the wall.

Still grates when I hear it,

Margaret Donnelly
Margaret Donnelly

April 30, 2021

I can’t stand it when people can’t distinguish between ‘fortunately’ and ‘fortuitously’ !

Margaret Donnelly
Margaret Donnelly

April 30, 2021

I can’t stand it when people say or write: ‘They want to have their cake and eat it.’ If you have a cake, of course you can eat it. And then it’s finished.
What they ought to say is: ‘They want to eat their cake and have it.’ This means you want to consume the cake and also still have it afterwards. You want to have it both ways.

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