to want to start a grammar thread with the sole intention of pointing out 'CHILDREN WHO'

[HedTwigg]

not 'children that'

arrrgghhhh

(might not even be right but its bugging me)

"children that" is definitely wrong!

You are describing children WHO are PEOPLE, not objects

So I'm wrong and right both at the same time.

That occurs so often its getting rather frightening actually

tiktok, that link made my head spin!

OMG, they perpetuate runner's up on the winners page

aaaaargh!!!!! If the OUP get it wrong now what hope for the future?

re OP, children "which" would be wrong, but I can sort of see that "that" is OK (though I would say who. I think).

Look at this! (Scroll down to 2nd post by empfrench)
I weeped myself!

who mentioned 'which' Jan?

oh FGS .. English Students writing

theres not there's
stealthly not steathily
weeped not wept

this is why we shouldn't be aiming to up the numbers of students entering higher education, we should do it on ability

arrgghhhhhhhh .. stooooooopppppppiiiiiiddddd

Me, twig!

What I mean is, "that" and "which" both sound as if they refer to things rather than people, but "that" can substitute correctly for "which" or for "who".

There. All better now?

And English at UCL rather than Smalltown Ex-poly

'xactly Jan

"Not 'children that'.

Arrrgghhhh,

(might not even be right but it's bugging me)."

Not to be pedantic but, if you're going to complain about grammar.

"though style and habit favour 'who'"...

Surely that's good enough reason to use who and wince at that?

theman are you trying to out-pedant me? ROFL

I'm sorry, but the first line runs from the title hence should not be capitalised.

And you really didn't just capitalise arrrgghhh did you.

I'll give you the it's but that was dealt with below.

Sorry i thought that if it was a run on you would have done the standard..... so i apologise for misuse of capital letters.
still it should have been a capital letter to start the thread then.

Oh dear, theman, if you're going to try to out-pedant a pedant like Twig you should never use a "sentence" like this:

"Not to be pedantic but, if you're going to complain about grammar."

(And there is a capital letter at the start - it's A!)

as in 'Am I being unreasonable'

OMG ORT are changing their website becaues I Tunbridge Wellsed their arse

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Dear HedTwig,

Thank you for your e-mail and pointing out this grammatical error. We
totally agree this should have been addressed earlier and I do hope you
accept our sincere apologise this has caused.

The website has been amended, although this does take a few hours to
upload onto our server so you may not be able to view this immediately.

Regards

poarticularly fond of having to accept "our sincere apologise this has caused."

This looks like a nice parking place for a current teeth-on-edge:

girls with fair hair are blonde
boys with fair hair are blond. Get it? Blond. Blond. With no e.

That is, quite clearly but perhaps I should stress it for the avoidance of doubt, not relevant to anyone participating in this thread. I should think.

hairjack over.

I have Alevel English language and Alevel English literature, but sometimes when im typing sooo fast to get all of my points down in a heated discussion punctuation, spelling and grammer go right out of the window.
Apologies for that.

Hairjack! Like it

Professor of Grammar to wife: I'm sorry dear but I've fallen in love with another, and she me too.

Wife: Blimey I knew you had a girlfriend but I didn't know she was Chinese!