To say, should HAVE / could HAVE / would HAVE?

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I know some people have learning difficulties, dyslexia, etc., but this is so common (surely more so than the incidence of dyslexia and so on) and it drives me bananas.

Also "your" being used to mean "you are".

I probably ABU to let it bother me (and to start a thread on it) but really, it's Year 2 stuff. Doesn't anybody read any more??

Myself yourself yourselves themselves grrrrrrr

That depends. You would say "They didn't know what to do with themselves", not "They didn't know what to do with them" or "I did not know what to do with me" (sounds odd).

Swedish has reflexives too - Hon har på sig kläder ("She has on herself clothes").

@Buswankeress

'DH and I have been invited' is fine, as is 'I have been invited'.
'They invited DH and I' is incorrect, as is 'they invited I'.

ncf.idallen.com/english.html this is more about pronunciation than grammar but it makes a point about the English language

Could've in speech is perfectly reasonable and sounds like could of.

Could of whilst writing is poor form.

Then again, I quite like dialect quirks. As long as people know when to use Standard English, I couldn't care less (or should that be 'i could care less'

Thank you cherry. In the instance you quote it is, quite obviously, correct. Yet that's not what we're talking about.

What about the elimination of 'to be'. I see it so often on here but no-one mentions it. Is it a new form of grammar I've missed? Is it American?

What will happen to the Bard's famous line, "To be or not to be?" when the words themselves are eradicated from our language?

It needs cleaned. No it does not! It needs to be cleaned.
It needs gone.
It needs fixed.
Aaarrrggghhh.

Don't get me started on using 'So' to start a sentence, it's redundant.

@harrietm87

Yep twas a joke. Could of been better I no.

It needs cleaned. No it does not! It needs to be cleaned.
It needs gone.
It needs fixed.

Is it American?

No, it's not. Most Americans would say "It needs to be cleaned" or "It needs cleaning."

It needs cleaned. No it does not! It needs to be cleaned.
It needs gone.
It needs fixed

My Scottish dh says this. Used to annoy me too.

I find 'dose' instead of does and 'atol' when they mean 'at all' really annoying!

"Helping your Uncle, Jack, off a horse" would be hyper-correct. No, it would be incorrect, because "uncle" in this sentence is a general noun (with Jack being used as to specify which uncle) and so it shouldn't have an upper case U.

I agree. Not sure where the capital 'u' came from. (Although that wasn't really the point of that example!)

The plural of roof is rooves, although I haven’t seen it used for years. Strangely the plural of hoof - hooves- is still common.
My pet hate is misplaced apostrophes used to denote plurals eg tea’s and coffee’s.

Ancient school days. Dwarf Dwarves. Roof Roofs.

The plural of roof is rooves

It’s a variant, not used much and never was I think.