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30 Jul 14
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Kingman out to grab Sussex crown of last year's victor Toronado......
Now i went to a pretty rubbish school but is it not meant to be "off"? or do they mean something that I do not get?....
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Now i went to a pretty rubbish school but is it not meant to be "off"? or do they mean something that I do not get?....
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I agree it's a horrible sentence but I believe it is correct. Grabbing the crown which belongs to Toronado I.e. "of Toronado"
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Cheers Mr.Glass...probably right but it still reads all wrong to me, but as you can see i am a tad bored waiting for Maid in Rio race and see if she gets home
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youtu.be/qCxXnD2bVaw
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it is getting to the point where i am watching you tube vid about kids with torrets!....yes very wrong but damn funny
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Um yar man when it comes two grammer only avtwo ask.
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Surely -
'Kingman out to grab Toronado's Sussex crown' Would have been much simpler - far less conflictory, and use less space. |
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Yes -- there is a tautology -- if Toronado holds the crown, he must have won last year -- so there is no point saying both -- @onlooker's headline is far better.
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£2.10 a day
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I went to private school, had a superb(very expensive)education, have an Honours Degree in English and can cofirm todays' RP front page headline is grammatically correct! Well worth the 2 English pounds and 10 pence.
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knowitaint
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it may well be correct but it reads like a gimp wrote it guv'n'r
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Cofirmed gbtp.
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It may be grammatically ok but it is not factually correct. Eadwine was the last king of Sussex.
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^ ^ ^
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gawd
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It may be grammatically ok but it is not factually correct. Eadwine was the last king of Sussex.
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jackdaw.......excellent!
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should it not be years' (or just years) instead of year's
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Chonaic, you are indeed correct. At the risk of being pedantic, however, that is a punctuation error, rather than a grammatical one. It is a very widespread error, which I see frequently, even in the Daily Mail, and also the Telegraph,both of which I take.
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I have never known anyone to take both the Telegraph and the Mail. MUst be a right wing zealot
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parispike, how perceptive you are!
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Gbtp
Shouldn't that be "How perceptive of you, parispike" ? |
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Both are correct I believe, Amphora.
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No, it's not a question!
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Quite correct Bernard Mafiaews. It's not a question in the original comment. But my post was a question, hence the "?".
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Both incorrect I'm afraid! The question mark was not inside the inverted commas, therefore you are both wrong, sorry lads.
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Fair point
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gbtp • July 30, 2014 6:38 PM BST
Both incorrect I'm afraid! The question mark was not inside the inverted commas, therefore you are both wrong, sorry lads. ^^^^^ I like him already! ^^^^^ |
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Eye went too the same school as gbtp
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In your dreams Dickie-Bird!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A wonderful school, no doubt.
Probably approved. |
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Raspberry! I really expect better from a fellow public school boy! Although I must admit my matron was nowhere near as "good" as yours' obviously is!
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At the risk of being pedantic, however, that is a punctuation error, rather than a grammatical one. It is a very widespread error, which I see frequently, even in the Daily Mail, and also the Telegraph,both of which I take.
Poor grammar and punctuation  |
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In your dreams Dickie-Bird!!!!!!!!!!!!!
eye was the matron  |
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the apostrophe is correct ... the headline is gross
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RP full of *uckwits, regular spelling and grammatical mistakes in the rag and also on the website.
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It's a bit of an abbreviated sentence isn't it? commonly deployed for Rag-Headlines? Lacks a 'the' before Sussex crown. Still far prefer it to the Forest Chump one so ridiculously defended by Peter Thomas in his rancid post column.
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headline seems to have been written by a non english speaker
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headline seems to have been written by a non english speaker
The Eastern European invasion have now infiltrated the Rancid Post |