for being a tad annoyed at having my English corrected by my daughter's non-native English speaking boyfriend?

[Kladdkaka]

Cheeky bloomin sod. Even though he may in fact be correct.

I was faffing around passed him my daughter's school bag to take upstairs as he went. I said 'Take her the bag.' He laughed at me and asked what sort of rubbish English was that. Apparantly my sentence was grammatically incorrect. He says I should have said 'Take the bag to her'. I then handed him a book about Warwick Castle, asked him to pronounce it, laughed at him and told him to come back when he's spent longer than 2 weeks in the UK.:o

So, MN jury, do I tell him that you all agree with me that my sentence was perfectly acceptable? Or do I lie to him and tell him that you all agree with me that my sentence was perfectly acceptable? :o

OH believes his English has got worse since he moved to the UK. I'm inclined to agree. Since we've moved to the midlands I've had to tell him off for using bring instead of take a number of times. Next he'll be asking if I can borrow him some money! Aargh

If somebody had told my boss that the following are incorrect: "aks", "he done it", "I aint", "they was", in both speech and writing (she does it in reports!) she wouldn't have hit a glass ceiling and wouldn't be complaining about discrimination. I'm far too polite to pull her up but I think it's sad that she's totally unaware of it.

Ask him if he would say "Could you lend me a hand?" or "Could you lend a hand to me?"

Is it not 'Bring her the bag' and 'Take the bag to her?'

English are bad at grammar, probably because it's something you only really start to understand when you learn a second language where it doesn't come 'naturally' and you have to learn the rules.

Your foreign friends is wrong.

'Take her the bag' is correct because you're using the verb 'take' in the imperative & the pronoun 'her' in the dative case. The 'to' is understood but not spoken. You could say 'take to her the bag' and it would be correct but it would sound clumsy.

Similarly 'Give her a drink'.... not 'give a drink to her'. 'Send him a letter'... not 'send a letter to him'. 'Lend them some money'... not 'lend some money to them'.
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('friend is wrong'... something inevitable about a typo in a post about grammar)

Andrewofgg "If I were a real pedant I would say that that should be ten years older than he but I'm not so I won't."

Really? In which century?

He's being rude. I'd suggest a death stare accompanied by "I beg your pardon?".

No, it should not be 'bring her the bag'

The general rule is that you ask people to bring things to you, and you take things to other people (or ask other people to take things to other people).

Exactly, buddy. Neither OP nor the boyfriend is coming up roses in this.

When I was learning Arabic, people used to laugh at me for speaking like a newsreader, it has taken me 6 years to speak in a more casual way. He sounds a bit cocky, I think I would be setting him a few traps if it (was/were) (me/I).

At least he's sort of 'part of the family' I was at a supermarket once and was talking to my son and his little friend when a woman came out of the blue and thought it was her right to correct something I'd just said to the children...the cheek of her!!! Then my friend pointed out that English is not my first language so I'm 'allowed' to get it wrong sometimes!