Sir – Whatever happened to conjugating verbs? Matching the forms of verbs to their subject may be complicated in Latin and many other languages but for most English verbs consists only of distinguishing singular from plural. Yet errors are becoming more numerous and more conspicuous in in [sic] print as well as in speech. I noticed two blatant examples minutes after opening The Oxford Times of June 30. Page 20’s headline read ‘Children and war is topic of exhibition’. Meanwhile, on page nine of Limited Edition magazine we had ‘. . . power and courage of women is celebrated’. Oxford should do better.
Caroline Pond, Iffley
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