Friday, 19 June 2015

You Cannot Be Serious, # 46

A hideous grammatical mangle spotted by Des Pond of Slough:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Hunter Treschl speaks about the moment a shark bit off his arm’

The news item comes from the USA, and thus the writer may well be American, but Merriam-Webster confirms in the following example that the past participle should be bitten, as in UK-English: ‘The patient had been bitten by a poisonous snake.’
arm bit off

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