An example of bad grammar -- and all in one ad (spotted by KA):
Going back in time, baby boomers will be familiar with these posters:
What's wrong with that famous tag-line, "Two is enough"? Should it not be "Two are enough"? And all that time, no one pointed out this glaring error. We were too busy complying (Just follow hor/just follow lor).
Able-bodied humans have two feet. So, if you try to do this...
...it's just not possible! This idiom is correctly used in the article heading below:
But grammar sticklers sometimes come up against a wise guy:
But unless you can use such wit to disarm a grammarian, stick with the "good usage" rules, like this one:
Or this one (which I've previously used)...
Finally, just about everyone -- grammarians too, I am sure -- is guilty of using abbreviations and dropping the grammar rules when sending text messages...
Is such a practice acceptable?
i dun know
wat's yr prblm
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