Lucky for us, the Greek economic debacle will benefit us in the UK in the long term. When Greece is finally broken up for parts, the islands we inherit can be moved to link mainland UK to the Channel Islands, creating the new county of ChannelShire. Then we can suck up lots of lovely tax from Bergerac and his mates thanks to our new 'land straw'
I bet the Queen and Prince Philip worry whilst they are away....
CAMILLA: I don’t think we should be doing this. We only have the keys to come in so we can look to the dogs and water the plants.
PRINCE CHARLES: Oh don’t be such a spoil sport Camilla. Ma and Pa in Australia, they’ll never know. Let’s invite Stephen Fry and the rest of the posse for a knees up.
CAMILLA: But what if they trash place. You know what Lumley’s like after three port and lemons. Mrs Giles is still trying to get those shoe prints off the summerhouse ceiling
CHARLES: Well, invite them using Harry’s twitter. His password is boobiesandguns. And boobies is in capitals.
CAMIL LA Okay then but Charles, take that off, it's your mother's. Charles!
CHARLES: Look at me, I’m the King.
Oh how I hope that is what's happening at Buckingham Palace this week.
I love the English language so much that sometimes I go out of my way to use it properly.
I want to spread that love of our great language so here is my guide to adjectives and specifically, gradability - the semantic property of an adjective that identifies different levels or degrees of the quality it denotes. Small, smaller, smallest for example.
Perhaps you will find it easier to comprehend with these visual examples I have created.
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