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Even The Britons Are Guilty Of . . . by tony9k(op): 8:04pm On Sep 09, 2013
The british PM David Cameron was in Russia for the G20 summit last week and was reported to have said that " . . . the decision we had 'took' on Syria . . .". That was obviously a slip but it reminded me of some grammatical "bombs" that Britons throw all over the place viz:
- a PA wrote "while you "was" away . .
- On match of the day " . . The ball could have "went" in . . "
- " . . There "is" two students coming . .
I gave some UK students an English class work to use we're, where and were as appropriate in a sentence. I asked them to complete this sentence - where __ you yesterday and one guy's response was: where 'was' you yesterday.

Maybe we should be a little less critical of our countrymen who throw grammatical bombs all over the place.
Re: Even The Britons Are Guilty Of . . . by kedukc(m): 8:33pm On Sep 09, 2013
Tell that to nairaland prefect mukina
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