Sayings that really get me mad!

[keyholekatebaron]

I cringe every time anyone says "None of us is getting any younger"
Another I fail to understand is a building "raised to the ground".
Feel better now I've got that off my chest!
regards,keyhole kate.

[ChuckFickens]

It's razed... not raised.

[B00]

its Razed to the ground- isn't it?

[B00]

lmao!!!!

Bet kate here feels daft now!

[factor-fiction]

What don't you like about the first one- is it just that it's stating the obvious?

[Safiya]

for me its

at the end of the day .... and .... what it is...... grrrrrrrrrrrr

[B00]

And ,while I'm being picky, wouldn't it be "none of us ARE getting any younger"?

[Safiya]

flipping heck boo dont be mean...you haven't even got your comma's in the right place lol

[factor-fiction]

I think NONE IS is correct

[ChuckFickens]

May be it's the bad grammar that makes kate cringe...

razed/raised is a proper ambiwlans moment though :)

[keyholekatebaron]

Thanks for clarification.Learn something new every day.Is there a stone I can crawl under and blush?
Kate B x

[vivandorron]

No.!! No stone is left unturned.:-)

Ron.

[sidkid]

if you read none as not one it makes more sense.....not one of us is getting any younger...

[plautus]

Both 'none is' and 'none are' are correct as 'none' is classed as either singular or plural (see Chambers).

[sidkid]

I was always led to believe that none is a shortened form of not one....oh well, live and learn...

[factor-fiction]

Re Safiya: "flipping heck boo dont (sic) be mean...you haven't even got your comma's (sic) in the right place lol "

What was wrong with Boo's commas?

[4candles]

Nowt wrong with Boo's commas, but Safiya's apostrophe is superfluous.

[B00]

I think she meant the comma after the word and. For some odd reason I did a gap, then the comma. So she's right, I stand corrected ;-)

[plautus]

There is nothing wrong with the comma after 'and'. It indicates a pause in speech. There should, however, be a comma after 'be' before the introduction of direct speech, and the 'none' should be 'None'.

Best wishes,
The Grammar Gestapo.

[askyourgran]

I'm with you sidkid, at shortened version of "not one of us is getting any younger".