To quote myself... 'Lord' Sugar.... For a clearly intelligent man he speaks like a half-wit.
Reading the post properly is an indicator of intelligence, unless you were taking the mick..(in which case, my apologies)


To quote myself... 'Lord' Sugar.... For a clearly intelligent man he speaks like a half-wit.
Reading the post properly is an indicator of intelligence, unless you were taking the mick..(in which case, my apologies)
Amo
Amas
Amat
Amamus
Amatis
Amant
I gave up Latin after one year to do German, HGSG in the 60s.
We were shown how to conjugate a verb in Latin. In English, we were shown nothing. That was HGSB in the 70s.
Sum, es, est, summus, estis, sunt.
FFS.![]()
I think that depended on who your English teacher was. Willie Pope was very thorough on grammar. If you had Jack Liddell for Maths, Willie Pope for English and Ross for Latin, you were sorted.
Lawrence for English GCE (he mocked us science stream students for a year) and Bennett for Maths A level (only interested in the Oxbridge swats).
To quote myself... 'Lord' Sugar.... For a clearly intelligent man he speaks like a half-wit.
Reading the post properly is an indicator of intelligence, unless you were taking the mick..(in which case, my apologies)
Nice use of the subjunctive.A student said to me 'I wish I was dead.'
I replied 'That's a terrible thing to say. It's I wish I were dead.'
Indeed. Blame the Americans with their insistence (as it's one country) that you should say 'The United States is', not 'The United States are'. (Lincoln indeed claimed that the Civil War was fought over that very principle!)Not just football. Team sports generally - presumably on the grounds that there are a number of players in the team, so that in terms of I; you; he/she/it; we; you (plural) and they, they come in the 'they' (or maybe for the fans the 'we') category - i.e. Sussex [they;we] weren't able to bat out the whole day; Red Bull were outpaced by Ferrari and Mercedes.
Individual sports are different - i.e. Vettel was in the grand prix until his engine conked out, Ian Botham was a good cricketer, etc, etc.
It is a bit of an anomaly though.
Nice use of the subjunctive.
How on earth can you call Lord sugar a half-wit?
Grammar is not an indicator of intelligence at all.
My point really is you're implying that people with poor grammar are stupid, apart from the odd one like Lord Sugar.
Proper grammar is not a measure of intelligence and anyone that deems to think this could be challenged themself.
Think about that one.
Mr Ross, to you sonny.![]()
To be fair, the best teacher I ever had. 'I'm not here to teach you facts, I'm here to teach you how to think'.
OK, y'*******, I was there 69-76. If you were in my class, and are not [MENTION=37530]monty uk[/MENTION] in disguise . . . .
Punctuation: the difference between a sentence that's well-written and a sentence that's, well, written.
No he's not. Only one of me - but some would say that's too many. Have emailed. Saturday?![]()