Grammar!

[Beejay8]

Are you as fed up as I am with receiving Sky e mails titled, 'Here's your latest VIP rewards and experiences'?

'Here's' is a shortening of 'here is' which must be followed by a singular noun.  The correct title of these e mails should be: 'Here are your latest VIP rewards and experiences'.

What hope have our schoolteachers got of teaching children correct grammatical speech and writing if a leading media player persists in setting such a poor example?

[TimmyBGood]

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@Beejay8 wrote:

What hope have our schoolteachers got of teaching children correct grammatical speech and writing if a leading media player persists in setting such a poor example?

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The leading media players are employing those children...

[Mark39]

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@Beejay8 wrote:

What hope have our schoolteachers got of teaching children correct grammatical speech and writing if a leading media player persists in setting such a poor example?

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Probably not much, when many schoolteachers are equally guilty of poor grammar, spelling etc.

[Beejay8]

Thank you both for your responses.  Sadly, both 'here's' and, even more frequently, 'there's' followed by a plural noun are becoming more and more ubiquitous.  I realise that turning this juggernaut around may be a Sisyphean task; however, I hope that someone at Sky is monitoring this thread and will arrange for the regular e mail title to be corrected!

[xenon81]

Perhaps it's just the natural evolution of language. If that didn't happen we would all still be writing like Chaucer or Shakespeare.

[Beejay8]

Fair point, but undermining core grammatical structures can lead to an linguistic anarchy leading to loss of clarity, ambiguity, inaccuracy and confusion.  I think there is a difference between positive evolution and simply sloppy use of language.

[Daniel0210]

@Beejay8 

Perhaps you could email the Viewer Relations Team at viewerR@sky.uk to express your concerns. 

[Beejay8]

Thank you very much for that suggestion.  I will do that now.