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British English speakers, especially mother tongue, can be lazy; I am one. We know the form, but we hardly ever know why, we don't look up the rules. It is only when we are questioned about our grammar that we bother to look up, as it i in this case. Michael pointed out an error from an American poi...

Congratulations Billy for 1st place.

The British view… However, the verb form used can depend on the emphasis of the sentence, and accepted regional usage, so no wonder many people are confused. In British English it’s absolutely fine to treat most collective nouns as either singular or plural – you can say my husband’s family is very...

UHM it is a group, hence singular.

I pose
he poses
they pose
we pose

the family pose

The family are posing
they are posing
we are posing

Michael, I just noticed you place the date, I really like that and will add to my final version, (1885), it sets the date for the reader and shows it not just a modern narrative. Unless there is a poetry convention that ekphrastics must have an introduction that points to the actual reference I woul...

1/Name - Ieuan ap Hywel 2/e-mail address - IeuanapHywel@aol.com 3/The poem: 'Potato Eaters' is my original work 4/it is unpublished 5/I am not representing in the current IBPC 6/poem is as follows: The Potato Eaters Five figures, two men and three females from three generations. Of the three females...

Yes, I am very pleased to be nominate by you and Siva,

Congratulations Siva for honourable mention in IBPC March 2016, well done.

regards


Frank

The Potato Eaters (1885) Five figures, from three generations. Of the three females a girl sits, her back towards the artist. Two small windows display the darkness of evening. Eight rafters run from front to back. The ouders sit on high-backed chairs with raffia woven seats. Oma schenkt koffie in,...

Iris's hand guided me back to the page of her book

Congratulations Billy, another mention, very well done. This is Frankly by the way. It must seem odd to you all that I keep changing names, but I seem to have great difficulty in signing in, once I forget a capital in my code even though I do the 'freleker' thing I can't get in. Is it a deliberate p...

Interesting name for a dog, and of course it refers to an artists, a modern artists who paints in fascinating colour. It is an educated man's poem, instructive, educating, and poems should do that, yes? It has so much details and tells us that a dogs has 220 million olfactory receptors in the nose w...

Again I cycle the Dock Road as alarm rattles in its tin; despair - at the early call longing to stay in the warm, to dress hurriedly in the cold the house, asleep in the early morn. A blue black sky on the shiny road, I peddle past the workman's hospital, men dying to end their journey when mine sta...