BBC Breakfast show asks viewers on FB about Grammar

[al**bear]

Playing with words - Do you when you should use 'less' and when to use 'fewer'? Let us know about the grammar mistakes that really annoy you.

Loads  have answered

Well, that question for a start :^O

[upthecreekyetagain]

As you say CD that person was demonstrably unsuited to be a head teacher - nothing to do with whether she was a good teacher or not.

Maybe if teachers were less regimented in what they had to teach, how they were allowed to teach and what materials they were allowed to use when teaching then we might be getting a larger proportion of well educated and rounded students at the end of the process.

At the moment schools, colleges and universities do produce large numbers of well educated and rounded members of society who go on to be productive members of society - do all these young people end up like this "in spite of the system"?

It's easy to be critical of the education system, a little less comfortable if it is suggested that the real problem lies not in what they did or didn't learn at school but what they learned at home.

[spawnjohnuk]

Past 30 yrs I would say it was more what they learned at school creeky,certainly there were a lot of young people not respecting their parents or listening to what they said (not so much now but still there) so in some cases yes it was home but a lot was how schools in general didn't know what to do or teach,through interference imo.

[malacandran]

If only more people had learned grammar at school, they may not be making mistakes today !

Like the mistake of using "may" instead of "might".

This is so common, nowadays, that it bids fair to be creating a permanent change in English usage.  Which will mean that In future, the "may" / "might " distinction is lost.

Will that make any difference? A person who thought so, may have committed suicide.