We Brits/Us Brits
Posted: August 11th, 2017, 2:47 pm
Does anyone else get grammar rage when watching TV programmes where the presenters constantly misuse "us" and "we"? I was always taught that a sentence should always make sense if you took part of it away, so for example:
"Us Brits when we go on holiday abroad like to eat fish and chips" is completely wrong as it would shorten to "Us like......" so it should be "We Brits...like...". It is mostly on the foody programmes and Greg Wallace and Jimmy Doherty are prolific offenders!
The other way around it would be something like "What is it about we Brits that we like to eat English food when holidaying abroad?" That would shorten to "What is it about we" so is blatantly wrong! Whatever happened to the BBC being the bastion of good English??
"Us Brits when we go on holiday abroad like to eat fish and chips" is completely wrong as it would shorten to "Us like......" so it should be "We Brits...like...". It is mostly on the foody programmes and Greg Wallace and Jimmy Doherty are prolific offenders!
The other way around it would be something like "What is it about we Brits that we like to eat English food when holidaying abroad?" That would shorten to "What is it about we" so is blatantly wrong! Whatever happened to the BBC being the bastion of good English??