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Listed below are comments made by bannman123 between Tuesday, 18th November 2008 and Thursday, 27th November 2008.

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Grammar test results 2:36pm on 27 Nov 2008 Re Aliland ...

Embarisingly??
Profictiance??
Familly??

It worries me more that an alleged teacher of English is using these monstrosities than that grammar errors (many of them trivial) are apparent in BBC reports, many of which - like that used in the test - are examples of spoken rather than written English.
Grammar test - your turn 11:40am on 18 Nov 2008 Here are 20 suggestions:
#1 - Ruth Kelly said she "IS" leaving should be "WAS" leaving
#2 - "Momentarily" sb "in a moment"
#3 - "there's no surprises sb "there are"
#4 - sb "between you and ME"
#5 - sb "No 10 WAS"
#6 - "Mitigate against" is incorrect
#7 - "in affect" sb "in EFFECT"
#8 - "partner with" is incorrect usage
#9 - "inferred to me" incorrect
#10 - "effectively" I believe is incorrect
#11 - sb "none of his other ministers "is"
or else "ARE .. THEIR"
#12 - "try and" sb "try to" (possibly)
#13 - "face up to" is incorrect usage
#14 - "one less" sb "one fewer"
#15 - I think "particularly" sb "especially"
#16 - "likely to" is incorrect - I think
#17 - "sung" sb "were singing"
#18 - "bored of" sb "bored by/with"
#19 - "enormity" incorrect usage
#20 - "disinterested sb "uninterested"

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