Monday, April 16, 2007

TUESDAY TESTERS

A TV DOUBLE DOSE

"The family of nine that lived there were out of town."
Jim Crichton, A Channel News Report (6 pm), Monday, April 16, 2007.
Identify the errors in the sentence above. You must be able to prove your corrections.

TERRIBLE TOP TEN

Today, I continue the Top Ten List of the common misuses of the English language.

NUMBER 9

I am extremely flattered; I don't hardly know what to say.

NUMBER 10

Yous are going to think this is hilarious, but it is really pathetic.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Correction:
The family of nine that lived there WAS out of town.

I don't know what to say.