how good is your english

[timwilky]

18/20. Damm if I know where the missing hyphen belongs.

Originally Posted by timwilky

18/20. Damm if I know where the missing hyphen belongs.

long-lost

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by Baph

long-lost

Doh. Cannot see for looking

Originally Posted by Baph

long-lost

Correct. I got that one wrong for saying it should have an exclamation mark in it. Arguably, it should; if anything deserves one, finding a long-lost brother does! I also don't like people ending quoted sections of speech with a comma, unless the verb for the way they said it is markedly different from, 'said'.

E.g. I don't mind "Get away from my bike you ****," spat the biker.
But I prefer: Before to long, the bus driver said, "Here we are, this is your stop."

To: "Here we are, this is your stop," said the bus driver, before too long.

The latter just looks clunky.

Originally Posted by Ceri JC

Correct. I got that one wrong for saying it should have an exclamation mark in it. Arguably, it should; if anything deserves one, finding a long-lost brother does! I also don't like people ending quoted sections of speech with a comma, unless the verb for the way they said it is markedly different from, 'said'.

E.g. I don't mind "Get away from my bike you ****," spat the biker.
But I prefer: Before to long, the bus driver said, "Here we are, this is your stop."

To: "Here we are, this is your stop," said the bus driver, before too long.

The latter just looks clunky.

Surely in your last example you have to many commas anyway. Shouldn't it be:

Before too long the bus driver said, "Here we are, this is your stop."

Or

"Here we are, this is your stop," said the bus driver before too long.

Which is still horrible

[Stu]

16. Such a good start as well, I was really getting excited blew it on some spelling & apostrophes.

[21QUEST]

Surely, that can never be right ?

As you both say, it just doesn't sound correct. Can anyone give a definitive 'why' ?

The above shows why Maths is an easier Subject than English lol


Ben

Originally Posted by Ceri JC

18/20. One of those I'd argue was down to their writing style (there were actually two mistakes in it and I spotted the 'wrong' one, which was merely stylistic, first). The other was mis-spelling 'Accommodation'.

'Accommodation' got me too. Funny, because I can type it correctly. I also got one of the apostrophe questions wrong too, so 18/20. Must Try Harder.

19/20

English is not my first language.

20/20 Big 'Ed