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EXAMPLE 1

Here is one from the web site of a football club.  

"Enjoy tea, coffee pies and biscuits at half time......"ANSWER 1

EXAMPLE 2

Here is one from the same web site.

"If you would like the luxuary of our Hospitality Packages....."ANSWER 2

EXAMPLE 3

This one's from an advert for cars and was found in a national newspaper dated 26/10/2004.   They were trying to say that they have far too many cars to list in the advertisement.

"To many cars to list....."ANSWER 3                                    More Below

EXAMPLE 4

This one is from an Education Newsletter.   The article explains how young people came together to celebrate their creativity and artistic talent.    Unfortunately, the author of the article didn't demonstrate his or her spelling talent in the article's headline.

"FASION SHOW 2004....."ANSWER 4

EXAMPLE 5

Here are two examples of the wrong use of the apostrophe.   One is from a shop frontage and one from a community association  

5a    "ANGLER'S SHOP"

5b    "MINERS WELFARE" Answer 5a and 5b

Answer 1

"Enjoy tea, coffee pies and biscuits at half time......"

Pies that taste of coffee would give this webmaster the boak.   But there's nothing wrong with this if a pie that tastes of coffee does exist- but I doubt if it does.   The sentence should have a comma after the word coffee.

"Enjoy tea, coffee, pies and biscuits at half time......"

If you want to learn more about the use of commas you could check out a programme called Target Skills which is available in Active IT areas in most libraries in South Lanarkshire.   The part of Target Skills that contains information on commas is Level 1 Literacy, Sentence Focus.   Even better, Contact Us and we will help you out.

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Answer 2

"If you would like the luxuary of our Hospitality Packages....."

Luxuary is spelled incorrectly, it should be:

"If you would like the luxury of our Hospitality Packages....."

If you want to learn more about spelling you could check out a book that was originally written for people with dyslexia; it's called Alpha to Omega.   It's better if you work with someone who is used to this book rather than use it yourself.   If you Contact Us we can help out.

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Answer 3

"To many cars to list....."

To is spelled incorrectly, it should be:

" Too many cars to list...."

If you want to learn more about spelling you could check out a book that was originally written for people with dyslexia; it's called Alpha to Omega.   It's better if you work with someone who is used to this book rather than use it yourself.   If you Contact Us we can help out.

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Answer 4

" FASION SHOW 2004....."

'FASION' is spelled incorrectly, it should be:

" FASHION SHOW 2004...."

If you want to learn more about spelling you could check out a book that was originally written for people with dyslexia; it's called Alpha to Omega.   It's better if you work with someone who is used to this book rather than use it yourself.   If you Contact Us we can help out.

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Answer 5a and 5b

5a    " ANGLER'S SHOP "

5b    " MINERS WELFARE "

When you see an apostrophe in front of the letter 's' like the one shown above, that tells the reader there is only one angler.   I would not like to be the owner of a shop that caters for one angler.   Where you add the letter 's' to make the word tell the reader there is more than e.g. one angler then it is 's' apostrophe as shown below.

Answer 5a    " ANGLERS' SHOP "

In this case there is no apostrophe and as the Welfare caters for more than one miner then it is once again 's' apostrophe as shown below.

Answer 5b    " MINERS' WELFARE "

If you want to learn more about the apostrophe Contact Us.

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