Minister's son education suffers.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ster-Phil-Woolas.html

So Home Office Minister Phil Woolas son's education has been damaged due to Labours immigration policy, he can always afford to employ someone to give his son out of hours lessons, perhaps it could be paid for out of expences.

Unfortunately others cannot implement these measures, their children's education will just have to suffer, not counting the all over effect on their infrastructure.

/// More than 25 languages are spoken at the school, including Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese and Urdu.///

[sp1814]

Zac,

You're right. There should be a full stop after 'policy' in the first sentence. There should also be an apostophe after Woolas, because it becomes a possesive noun when referencing his son (just as his son is a possessive noun because it comes before the word 'education').

There should be an apostrophe after 'Labour' in the same sentence.

There should be a full stop after the word 'lessons'.

[Sandy-Wroe]

This chap's son will probably turn out to be a polyglot. Every cloud has a silver lining.

[sp1814]

The 'measures' referenced in the second paragraph should be the singular 'measure'. Providing after school tution is a singular action. If he were providing after school tutition AND moving him to another school, then these would be two separate actions, which would justify the word 'measures'.

There should be a full stop after the word 'measures'.

The apostophe should be after the 's' in childrens, otherwise the sentence reads as if everyone in the country has the same child.

[sp1814]

'all over effect' should read 'overall effect'.

The word 'effect' here is used correctly though. Many people would use 'affect', which is entirely wrong.

AOG

I say all this because I went to a very, very multicultural school, and it didn't seem to have held me back in my education - especially with regards to my command of English.

Pray tell...what's YOUR excuse?

[sp1814]

Hmmm...just spotted my spelling of 'possessive'.

Interesting.

[dh001]

sp,

"The apostophe should be after the 's' in childrens, otherwise the sentence reads as if everyone in the country has the same child...."

What is 'apostophe'??

[dh001]

May as well explain 'tution' and 'tutition'.

"Providing after school tution is a singular action. If he were providing after school tutition"

[sp1814]

Typing on an iPhone can seriously damage one's arguments on grammar (small keypad / large index finger syndrome).

[BillyBB]

It is known in some circles as Muphry's Law. A deliberate misspelling of Murphy.
Any post where you point out other's grammatical error, is likely to contain errors inversely proportional to the seriousness of the first error.

[anotheoldgit]

You are on very dangerous ground when you set yourself up as AB's English expert.

You will constantly have to what your backs, in the future.

Zacsmaster

I would be obliged if you could point out the spelling mistakes.

/// Your grammar and spelling are terrible. ///

That sounds a bit dodgy to me.

Shouldn't it be 'Your grammar and spelling is terrible"?

Or, 'Your grammar and spellings are terrible'?

But then having left school many, many years ago, I could be wrong.

[Quinlad]

You are wrong, AOG. It should be "are". Sorry.

"Expences" is a misspelling.

But we all make mistakes. Let's move on.

[sp1814]

AOG is correct when he says 'are terrible' looks wrong, but indeed, it's grammatically correct.

However, a more elegant phrase would be 'are both terrible'.

[milliezoe]

Simple answer we all speak english !!!!!!!!!!!! Not too hard is it ?

[TCL-MUMPING]

I think folk should cut aog a bit of slack here. His brain is so full of racist opinions, there's no room for some of the basic rules of grammar...

[McMouse]

Got my hand-bag ready for swinging.

[anotheoldgit]

TCL-MUMPING

/// I think folk should cut aog a bit of slack here.///

I don't need a little 'whipper-snapper' like you to come to my defence, I am old enough, wise enough and experienced enough to take on such as you, all on my own Mumpkins.

It is quite funny when I post a question on Immigration how others will try and bypass the issues.

They will either post insults, accusations of racism (even though we have been told it is not racist) or shoot off at tangents, (as in the case of the English lessons) all in a useless attempt to cover up the matter.

[Quinlad]

"It is quite funny when I post a question on Immigration how others will try and bypass the issues."

Have you posted a question about immigration before?

[sp1814]

Quinlad...ha ha ha.

[TCL-MUMPING]

"They will either post insults, accusations of racism (even though we have been told it is not racist) or shoot off at tangents, (as in the case of the English lessons) all in a useless attempt to cover up the matter."

What is it that we have been telt it is not racist?