Grammar question..

[Pale Rider]

This thread is scattered with examples of capitals disease.

Despite me pointing out custard cream is not capitalised, posters continue to do it and to capitalise other ordinary nouns.

Good thing I'm not a teacher because you'd all be in detention.

 

[Globalti]

Two threads above, the plural or aero is aeros.


The verb "text" is proving problematic. People seem to have forgotten the simple rules of verb conjugation.

I text or texted
You text or texted
He, she or it texts or texted
etc.

 

[Pale Rider]

Two threads above, the plural or aero is aeros.


The verb "text" is proving problematic. People seem to have forgotten the simple rules of verb conjugation.

I text or texted
You text or texted
He, she or it texts or texted
etc.

Don't get me started on using the apostrophe to denote a plural.

 

[Dave7]

I will treat = future
I have treated = past

So does the biscuit in question still exist at the time the statement was made ?

What if only half of it is eaten ?

 

[midlife]

What if only half of it is eaten ?

Then someone else could have the other half?

Shaun

 

[Tim Hall]

I will treat = future
I have treated = past

So does the biscuit in question still exist at the time the statement was made ?

It used to exist I think. I put it in a box for safe keeping, but the bloody cat scoffed it.

 

[slowmotion]

Biscuit aficionados could do worse than pay a visit to this site....
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/

 

[classic33]

Why only Grammar asking?

 

[TrishE]

I've never eaten a custard cream...custard goes with chocolate sponge or sticky toffee pudding but custard as a biscuit? That can't be nice.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Our local Whole Foods doesn't have any British food, whereas my local Randalls has a British food section on its ethnic food isle. They have McVities, but that's all for biscuits. Also Aero's, Baked Beans, Vinegar and bloody salad cream.

Try these fellows, then.
http://britishfooddepot.com/crawford-custard-creams-150g-2/?dfw_tracker=9614-2283

 

[Tin Pot]

Is it, in the present tense, 'I treat myself to a 'Custard Cream biscuit' or 'I treated myself to a Custard Cream biscuit'

"I trought myself to a Custard Cream biscuit."

Anyone who thinks a custard cream is a treat must've been raised in a hole in t' ground, woke up before the went to sleep, etc.

 

[Tin Pot]

It is a good thing that I'm not a teacher, because you'd all be detained.

 

[Pale Rider]

'It is a' is superfluous in this conversational written English context.

'That' is a horrid word and is almost always superfluous.

 

[T4tomo]

Don't get me started on using the apostrophe to denote a plural.

Agreed, only acceptable if one is a grocer.

 

[slowmotion]

Or, depending on the context, the habitual present.

I used to have a custard cream habit.

In remission? Getting by on a careful regime of Hob Knobs?