To tell teacher friend about grammar error?

[ImaSababa]

A friend of mine is a primary school teacher, and is making and selling cushions on Facebook. Lovely. The problem is, they're riddled with mistakes, such as "Christmas at the Johnson's" when surely is should be "Johnsons'".

Should I tell her?

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Oh - that Johnson. He hadn't even occurred to me in the context of this thread tbh!

I'll just leave this here.

(Taken by me BTW.)

I'm wondering what the girl's rule is. Hopefully it's a rule about bloody apostrophes!

@lazylinguist

Oh - that Johnson. He hadn't even occurred to me in the context of this thread tbh!

Sorry to have been so nippy! Yes, THAT Johnson!

Johnson's'

Damn autocorrect! Johnsons'

I know a English teacher who is dreadful at spelling. They have worked in two private schools

Your wrong OP. Have you already said something? I definately wouldn’t of.

😂

Sorry to have been so nippy!blush Yes, THAT Johnson!

That's quite all right. The thought of that Johnson is enough to make many people a bit nippy. As is the topic of apostrophes tbh.

@Piglet89 😆😆

I really want this thread to keep continuing, because i love it......so can anyone think of a really tough grammar question to put out there? To keep things spiced up..!?

so can anyone think of a really tough grammar question to put out there?

Well I can think of plenty of complicated grammar stuff, but not necessarily anything that would keep a lively debate going.

How about this one: would you say "The team were really happy with their performance" or "The team was really happy with its performance"?

Ha, @lazylinguist - I saw @Somethingsnappy 's question, and my first thought was whether to treat group nouns as plural!

Even people who insist that team is singular, so it should be "team is", would probably not bat an eyelid at hearing "Arsenal are through to the final..."

Ooh, good one. I'm going to say that actually both of those would be acceptable? The first sounds more pleasing, but neither are wrong.....

....because although 'team' is singular, it's perhaps also acceptable to acknowledge that you're also talking about individuals within that team, i.e. the team doesn't necessarily have a group mentality?

When I first moved here it took me a LONG time to get used to hearing "The team are..."

Does it matter op? The mistake sounds minor, you said riddled? What else is wrong? I think you should be happy for your friend and her business and not nitpick.

Or even "Scotland are through to the semi finals".

I was more used to "New Zealand is through to the final" , though obviously "The All Blacks are through to the final" would have been perfectly normal.

@lazylinguist

so can anyone think of a really tough grammar question to put out there?

Well I can think of plenty of complicated grammar stuff, but not necessarily anything that would keep a lively debate going.

How about this one: would you say "The team were really happy with their performance" or "The team was really happy with its performance"?

The team IS happy. Because it’s a single entity?

@GrouchyKiwi

Or even "Scotland are through to the semi finals".

I was more used to "New Zealand is through to the final" , though obviously "The All Blacks are through to the final" would have been perfectly normal.

Ha!

@lazylinguist

so can anyone think of a really tough grammar question to put out there?

Well I can think of plenty of complicated grammar stuff, but not necessarily anything that would keep a lively debate going.

How about this one: would you say "The team were really happy with their performance" or "The team was really happy with its performance"?

I insist on the team is... but two exceptions to singular nouns like that are pop groups and football teams.

So Man Utd are top of the league - can't say is! And The Spice Girls have released a new single - again, cannot say has!

But The project team is happy to help you...

If you don't like that, get round it with Colleagues on the project team are happy...