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Spelling error in official document

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clam · 15/03/2015 11:46

OK, so dh says I'm being precious and unnecessarily pedantic about this, but I found the following in the Reading assessment criteria document, issued by my county:

"makes deductions about the motives and feelings that might lay behind characters’ words"

Who do I complain to?!! Grin

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Muststopworrying · 15/03/2015 17:01

I remember when there was a mistake in the phonic screening guidelines. I was howling!!!!Grin

quietlysuggests · 15/03/2015 17:05

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clam · 15/03/2015 17:07

Yep!

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happyteacher1 · 17/03/2015 06:32

At least they put the apostrophe after the s.....

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 17/03/2015 06:34

Who wrote it? Complain to them.
I don't think you're being unnecessarily pedantic, it's the sort of thing that really gets my goat as well, if officials can't be arsed to get this sort of thing correct, what hope is there for the rest of us?

ScrambledEggAndToast · 17/03/2015 07:03

I had to laugh when my son brought his English homework home and it said something like "write a letter to your auntie and uncle to peresuade them that they should take you to the seaside" (or something along those lines).

Sixfifetree · 17/03/2015 07:08

Like the English homework! Did he include a sentence along the lines of, because I will learn more on a beach than at my school?

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