29-11-2021, 01:05 AM
The present participle seems to have vanished. "I was stood while he was sat" instead of "I was standing whilst he was sitting" and don't get me started on "Her and me went to the shops". I used to try to correct my son's written work when he was at Secondary school in the 1990's and he insisted that his teachers were not concerned with such trivia, the sense of the piece was more important than the GrammAARRGGHH!