Grammar Nazi: Potentially part one of a series…

 

Just had a rather unsavoury request through from an un-named journalist who asks:-

 

“Are you a mother with a child under five who is a smoker but who doesn’t smoke in the home?” 

 

The journalist in question, did of course mean to ask, “Are you a mother with a child under five?  Do you smoke, but not in the home?” 

 

One hopes, anyway. 

And they say that English standards have slipped…  

Tags: grammar, journalism, Media, smoking