Mangling English: an occasional rant

Businesses that don't bother checking their websites, journalists who write gibberish and balderdash, professionals who can't take the extra time and effort to spell-check and proofread, newspapers that turn tragedy into farce through solecisms, plus the odd guide to solving common grammatical difficulties… Contributions and suggestions welcome. (… Also corrections if required, obviously!) Send to: manglingenglishATgmxDOTcom, stating your nom de mangle (if desired).

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Direct speech versus reported speech

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I hate it when people put reported speech in quotation marks as though it were direct speech. I wonder if any of the thousands who 'liked' or discussed the page actually noticed the grammatical idiocy…

Mangling English: an occasional rant

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Direct speech versus reported speech

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