Grammar question? (1 Viewer)

[clive]

dis deadly ting i seen the other day was deadly.

that's terrible, where's your grammar?

aht home doin' her nittin'.

 

[quasiquasi]

I think I read somewhere that usage differs between US and UK English. It's one of those areas where syntax ("team" is a singular noun) and semantics (the team is not really a singular thing) collide, and neither option is uniquely right or wrong. Of course, this doesn't stop a boss/teacher/whatever deciding what you wrote contradicts some arbitrary rule he read somewhere ten years ago and IS THAT A PREPOSITION YOU'RE FINISHING THIS SENTENCE WITH???

 

[thad wrongcock]

Simon's boring threads has made me sleepy?

 

[Mormon Nailer]

IS THAT A PREPOSITION YOU'RE FINISHING THIS SENTENCE WITH???

This is nonsense up with which I will not put!

(Sir Winston Churchill)

 

[maims bond]

my flock of sheep is missing.
my flock of sheep are missing.

the second sounds wrong.

well duh, it should be 'sheeps'.