Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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You bought some burgers and brought them to the bbq
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[News] DVLA web in English. is this correct?
- Thread starter Garage_Doors
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I bet your a good night out...
DumLum
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I'm not that bad with grammer but I can't seem to grasp the correct use of less or fewer. I only know I've made this mistake when the other half gives me the cold shoulder.
#livingwiththegrammerpolice
Less is used for non-quantifiable things, fewer for quantifiable.
For example, you could say that one beach has fewer grains of sand on it than another (because you can have a grain of sand), or you could say one has less sand than the other. (because you can't have 'a sand').
You wouldn't say 'less grains of sand' or 'fewer sand'.
Less hilly, fewer hills.
*you're*
drew
Drew
Language evolves. Those banging on about less or fewer or can have and can get probably ignore the fact that language 100 years ago was different and it will be in 100 years.
el punal
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Depends if the car is roadworthy or not. If not then it won’t be druv.
Fair enough. But some poor usage alters the meaning (such as disinterested / uninterested, or using the word inflammable when you mean flammable) and the trouble with incorrect usage is that the reader then doesn't know whether the author is using the terms in the 'old, proper' way, or in the 'new, modern, evolving' way. And therefore, the reader may get the wrong impression from what was written.
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
Ok Thanks all, i'm a tit
And what exactly are you at?
“You’re” surely?
One of my special low-threshold irritations is the oposite - when people say 'bought' instead of 'brought'. As in 'I bought it home'. My standard reply is 'when did you bing it home?'.
*cough* wunt *cough*
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
One of my special low-threshold irritations is the oposite - when people say 'bought' instead of 'brought'. As in 'I bought it home'. My standard reply is 'when did you bing it home?'.
Be careful when talking to a Yorkshire person when they use fetched instead of brought. I fetched it with me. It's more prevalent in Leeds, than other areas.
The Spanish
Well-known member
Buy, bought. bring, brought. You don’t bry anything in a shop do you.
Super Steve Earle
Well-known member
Very, very cunning. I see what you did there. You drew attention from the fact that you said 'must of' instead of 'must have', by showing your misunderstanding of the difference between 'bought; and 'brought' instead. Nice one. I see nobody else noticed in 4 pages!
And while we are at it, every time I see DVLA I read DVDA. So many wasted evenings in the early noughties 
Ahem. Post #6
Tell DVLA you've sold, transferred or bought a vehicle
Tell DVLA when you no longer own a vehicle, or you buy a vehicle as either a registered keeper or motor trader.
It seems the form is for selling, transferring or buying a vehicle.
So I would assume you have either relinquished ownership by selling or transferring the vehicle to someone else or have purchased a vehicle. Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s how it appears to me.