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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Toff's error

What is the Toff's error. I've done a search but can't find anything about it anywhere.
  

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Hi, I've never heard of it. In what context did you find this term? Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, I've never heard of it.
  • In what context did you find this term?
  • Clive
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Hi,
I've never heard of it. In what context did you find this term?

Clive
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It's using a nominative pronoun where an accusative is required. A few decades ago it started to become fashionable to have children attend school without actually teaching them anything. The teachers corrected them, "Sarah and I", not "Sarah and me" without actually teaching them when or why "Sarah and me" was wrong. I lot of students assumed "Sarah and me" was always
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Toffs' Error is when people mistakenly use "so-and-so and I ". For example when people say something like "she gave the tickets to Sarah and I" because they think it sounds correct although it is actually wrong because I is a subject and me is an object therefore me is actually want should be used in this sentence. The only time one can use I as an object is whe
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Anonymousentirely seperate rule onto itself.
It's spelt separate. Could be spelled separate, I suppose
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