From "Wales Online": "Fiji to stand still for Wales match after Welsh players suffer '15 weeks of hell'". Utterly bizarre! And it doesn't (sadly) mean that the Fijian rugby players will remain stationary to give Wales a chance of winning the match!
BBC: "Stonehaven crash: Network Rail fined £6.7m over fatal derailment".
Not weird - but I can never see the point of fining public bodies (including hospitals, schools, Councils) as surely this stretches their resources even more. Does this merit a new thread?
BBC: "Stonehaven crash: Network Rail fined £6.7m over fatal derailment".
Not weird - but I can never see the point of fining public bodies (including hospitals, schools, Councils) as surely this stretches their resources even more. Does this merit a new thread?
I agree. What's the point, or administrative honesty, in taking money from one part of the public sector, which is funded from taxes, and paying it to another, which funds the first one anyway.
Also, the people who suffer from a part of the public sector - invariably already underfunded - then having to pay a whacking great fine, have no control whatsoever over the issue that has prompted the fine.
I'm surprised so few people, apart from you and me, ever seem to have spotted this one. One would have thought it ought to have been obvious.
The same goes for different parts of the government having to pay taxes to each other.
And perhaps it's money which could have gone towards preventing such a tragedy in the future. (I did not sy compensation, I assume ample and adequate insurance for compensation).
I don't think that a comma there would strictly have been an Oxford comma. Aren't those more to do with how to punctuate lists?
The error is a more fundamental one. Commas are there to indicate where there are short pauses within sentences. They also help readers to know where best to take a breath. It's a breach of the rule that whatever the grammatical regulations may say, the fundamental purpose of punctuation is to make the words easier to understand. Not putting one in there makes the sentence difficult to follow.
'And' is used both to join successive nouns/pronouns 'my husband and I' and successive quasi-sentences. In the position that one comes, reading it aloud, without the help of the comma, it isn't clear until after 'Dammers' which way 'and' is being used, what it is that is being conjuncted.
No. The fossil is protesting in order to free London. I don’t know why Greta Thunberg joined with the fossil. Or maybe she was counter-protesting, believing that London should not be released.
The other day, I got an e-mail from The Canterbury Cathedral Shop; I'm on their mailing list. However, this time I found it slightly threatening:
Meet the Maker - Designed by Esther
In the actual e-mail it then says: "We've been overwhelmed by the fantastic response to our latest product range which we shared with you all last month, so we thought you might like to meet the maker, Esther Johnson. [...]"
The Washington Post has been giving a lot of unfriendly coverage to Jim Jordan, a former wrestling coach, no longer a candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Not a Nice Person. Today they awarded him a headline thus: "When will Jim Jordan wrestle with himself?"
Character renovation project hiding in a posh area of a Welsh city going to auction with huge potential
Bit obvious, innit? Of course the auction has a huge potential, if it is auctioning off a whole Welsh city complete with a posh area that is engaged in a secret project to renovate characters.
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What? - all the way from NZ? No, only from Lyons to Paris!
They could have walked, I suppose.
‘Ritual mass murder report in Chapel St Leonards was yoga class’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-66742339
Not weird - but I can never see the point of fining public bodies (including hospitals, schools, Councils) as surely this stretches their resources even more. Does this merit a new thread?
Also, the people who suffer from a part of the public sector - invariably already underfunded - then having to pay a whacking great fine, have no control whatsoever over the issue that has prompted the fine.
I'm surprised so few people, apart from you and me, ever seem to have spotted this one. One would have thought it ought to have been obvious.
The same goes for different parts of the government having to pay taxes to each other.
Aaah, there's lovely ... do you think they were holding tentacles?
I read that one a little too quickly...
... which is actually about dogs!
And of course I would read 'libido' in another headline from there...:
"Woman in court charged with missing parents' murder"
I had no idea there was a requirement to attend the murder of one's parents, on pain of criminal sanction!
Rates for heavy water users may rise in Peachland
A comma before "and" would have clarified things ...
However other extraneous commas all-too-frequently make an appearance. Is this an undercover operation by The Other University City?
The error is a more fundamental one. Commas are there to indicate where there are short pauses within sentences. They also help readers to know where best to take a breath. It's a breach of the rule that whatever the grammatical regulations may say, the fundamental purpose of punctuation is to make the words easier to understand. Not putting one in there makes the sentence difficult to follow.
'And' is used both to join successive nouns/pronouns 'my husband and I' and successive quasi-sentences. In the position that one comes, reading it aloud, without the help of the comma, it isn't clear until after 'Dammers' which way 'and' is being used, what it is that is being conjuncted.
I've never seen amber rain ...
Trump has.
So - how many years did the journey take? Was it due to leaves on the line?
(Spotted in the Metro)
Here's one from BBC News:
I wonder how many volts she runs on!
Apparently, we voted them into power.
In the actual e-mail it then says: "We've been overwhelmed by the fantastic response to our latest product range which we shared with you all last month, so we thought you might like to meet the maker, Esther Johnson. [...]"
Phew. I may just live a little longer!
Character renovation project hiding in a posh area of a Welsh city going to auction with huge potential
Bit obvious, innit? Of course the auction has a huge potential, if it is auctioning off a whole Welsh city complete with a posh area that is engaged in a secret project to renovate characters.
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Won't be necessary if you've injected yourself with disinfectant 🙄
(Source: Metro)