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“beach games, sand castle competitions, live music and a spaghetti eating competition”
Boy they sure know how to party, I had to settle for 10 pints of wifebeater and a kebab. Does getting kebab sauce down my shirt count as a variant on spaghetti eating?
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Is a very good fate but found this year it was spoiled by teenages that can not handle there drink, then when asked to leave stalls, they felt the need to use verbal abuse at us it’s such a shame
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Stall holder
‘Is a very good fate’
I always found it a fate worse than death!
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Another rip-off as you have to pay £4 to get in. And why not have the fete on a weekend instead of a Thursday? Is it a case of ‘we’ve always had the fete on a Thursday for tens of years’? If you want to attract the crowds/raise more money (or don’t they?), then move it to a Sunday.
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I refused to go out of principle because £4.00 to just enter this Fete is disgraceful. I also refused to attend the Fish festival when I found out they wanted £3.00 to get in. People spend automatically when they go to these ‘get-togethers’ so when will the organisers stop trying to rip people off and do something constructive for locals and tourism for a change? I mean what’s the £4.00 for anyway, what are these over-heads I wonder?
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2 Stall Holder –
Is a very good fate but found this year it was spoiled by teenages that can not handle there drink
They’re an ill educated bunch, many don’t know their there’s from their their’s,there, there, there it will all work out in the end.
They’re = they are – their = a possessive pronoun relating to an individual – there = refers to a place or point of reference.
M Le Verdic I suspect your comment has soared over Stall Holder’s head, as undoubtably has mine.
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They’re Their There – Sad, Saddo, Saddest
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Indignant at paying a few quid that’s going to charity?! Only in Jersey!
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7 Sensible ( misnomer surely )
They’re Their There – Sad, Saddo, Saddest
Well done, and two of your choices are real words For those of us who went to school I feel it’s important to maintain a minimum grammatical standard. You probably think that a basic grasp of the written form of your native tongue is unimportant. I wonder if you are as happy for bank tellers to be numerically incompetant.
If this is the standard of education on this island no wonder so many are unemployed, they are unemployable.
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They’re Their There – “Well done, and two of your choices are real words For those of us who went to school I feel it’s important to maintain a minimum grammatical standard.”
As do I, thus I feel it would be correct for you to place a full stop between “words” and “For”.
According to the Oxford Dictionary:
“Saddo
noun (plural saddos)
British informal
a person perceived as contemptible or pathetically inadequate:
girly mags were for middle-aged saddos, not for right-on young men.”
I have said it before, it is pedantic to correct people on their grammar when the flow of their post can be followed.
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No 9. = Troll – Ignore similar comments in future.
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They’re Their There 6.
Re: “their = a possessive pronoun relating to an individual”
If you must correct the grammar and spelling of others, do it with grace and respect…oh, and get things right!
“Their” is not a possessive pronoun, it’s a possessive adjective (also known as possessive determiner).
You were obviously off school the day the teacher explained the difference between the two.
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Crampe, it can be both, but he is also wrong in stating that it relates to an individual. “their finest hour”
So he can’t punctuate properly,(missing full stop) he has a limited vocabulary (doesn’t think saddo is a word) and doesn’t know the definition of the word their!
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Seriously guys? Who cares? Get a grip.
Anyway, Gorey Fete was awful, full of young drunk teens, never going again!
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David 13.
In grammar, the main syntactic role of an adjective is to qualify a noun or noun phrase and thus provide information about the noun.
Therefore, I think you will find that my, his, her, its, our, your and their are considered possessive adjectives; whereas, mine, his, hers, its (rarely used), ours, yours and theirs are considered possessive pronouns.
Furthermore, possessive adjectives/determiners cannot stand alone and require a noun if they are to qualify possession, for example, my pen, their hats, etc.
Possessive pronouns, on the other hand, can stand alone and still qualify possession, for example, it’s theirs, they’re mine (no noun needed).
Borin’init!
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‘Crampe des écrivain’ looks horribly wrong to me!
For a start there should be an ‘s’ on the end of écrivain if you mean ‘writers’cramp’. If you mean ‘writer’s cramp’ then ‘des’ is wrong.
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Gorey fete has been awful for years.
Went down about 5 years ago with my wife and mother, we got jostled around, sworn at and couldn’t find a seat for love nor money. It was just an excuse for the Gorey locals to get on the drink early and stumble around drunk.
St Clements fete was the last one this year I hear, it seems these things are too close together or need updating.
Walking around getting p*ssed, smoking and shouting isn’t my idea of fun.
As for the teenagers, A level results, summer holidays, what else are they going to do? Of course they are going to be there, when I last went they were not the main problem, the 30 somethings stumbling around blind drunk were!!
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Crampe, Yes yours is the most common view but not the only one.
Their and theirs are also classed by some as possessive pronouns, more specifically their is a weak posessive pronoun and theirs is a strong or absolute posessive pronoun.
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Well spotted CLV, an ‘s’ is missing. Next time I’ll use ‘Le spasme du scribe’…far more suitable!
By the way, you should never say something/someone is wrong. Nice people (and I am sure you are nice) say: “I think you will find that…” (as per my post 13); or “that is not quite right” – both forms are understood to be graceful, even generous ways of drawing a person’s attention to errors.
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Well David, I suspect that most English grammarians would tell me to fight you on this one, but it’s time for bed so, Goodnight, God bless you…mmm…the subjunctive mood…even more borin dan’dem pronouns!
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Sorry Crampe! I should have said ‘incorrect’. That’s nicer than ‘wrong’.
Please bear in mind that I was christened ‘C Le Verdic’, not ‘Polite Attention Drawer’!
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I feel sorry for all you sad people who have nothing better to do than slag people of about they’re/their/there spelling.
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BY the looks of the photos it was stuff your face and drink til you drop! most look like they are going to vomit, the winner is eating with hands not fork like the rest !!!
Can all this on fri/sat night in St Helier !!!
Where are the photos of sand castles etc..
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