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Offline The Peepmaster

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Today's Andy Capp Strip
« on: April 05, 2008, 09:08:21 PM »
For goodness sake, don't let Mince have sight of the grammar in today's strip.
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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2008, 09:32:19 PM »
Although I may be wrong...

Flo and Andy are at a wedding, and Flo says "Where are the happy couple?". I immediately thought, hang on, 'couple' is a singular term, and therefore maybe it should be "Where is the happy couple?".

Now I'm thinking the individual components of "the happy couple" could be in two different parts of the room, and so "where are" might be okay...

I need a beer.
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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2008, 09:35:59 PM »
Couple is a collective noun and can be singular or plural.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2008, 09:38:06 PM »
You have to remember that Flo is from the North East of England and when people from that area talk about---about---LOOK WHAT MINCE HAS DONE TO US!!!!!

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2008, 09:39:59 PM »
My students use multiple exclamation marks as well. I tell them that their life is not that dramatic.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2008, 09:46:37 PM »
Really!!!!!

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2008, 09:50:31 PM »
I also tell them that one-word sentence fragments demonstrate an inability to string together an intelligent and coherent response.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2008, 09:59:19 PM »
Mind you, I get ignored a lot.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2008, 10:09:45 PM »
Sometimes I find myself in a topic all by myself.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2008, 10:14:43 PM »
Really!!!!

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2008, 10:18:02 PM »
But then they come back and start repeating themselves, clear proof that they have run out of anything worthwhile to say.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2008, 11:36:47 PM »
O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!!!!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!!!!!!
I apologise, in advance.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2008, 11:52:08 PM »
Shakespeare contented himself with just a single exclamation mark in each case.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2008, 12:22:08 AM »
You had to check though, didn't you?  ;D
I apologise, in advance.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp Strip
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2008, 12:28:39 AM »
Blimey! I've been out with a bird tonight, having posted my message, and come back to this. I'm really grateful for Mince saying about collective nouns being "singular or plural". It answers the question.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟