Doos

Get a life

It’s a grammatically-perfect alternative to positing the negative, expecting the answer “no”.

“This is the route to Paris, it it?” (Implied positive: I think it is. Am I right?)

“This is the route to Paris, isn’t it?” (Implied negative: I’m unsure. Am I wrong?)

More than one way to skin a cat. (Subject and finite verb understood.)

Grandma + eggs, pilgrim. (Metaphor)

In your face.

The only loss that counts is to Ireland – ouch mate…

Shoemaker, stick to your last.

Don’t teach grandmother to suck eggs. (Quevedo)

Unless context fully sustains the whole meaning, do not omit finite verbs in a compound sentence. (Fowler)

The apostrophe is used to indicate elision. (Fletcher and Sceales)

When White’s men took to the field every man knew there role and I found that they were calm, composed and clinical in their execution. I don’t think that anyone can argue that Woodward’s poms were extremely well prepared in 2003′.
The Aussies in 1999 (it was Rod Macqueen was it?) I remember were also superb in their defensive tactics.

Now i know the Kiwi’s will jump on my back and say that in all these cases the winners never had to meet the AB’s., but I don’t think it’s unfair to say the AB’s choked themselves out of that scenario.

One could argue that old Kitch was also a great coach, but I will remember those performances more for passion that being well coached. Also it was the start of the professional era and I think that helped SA a bit in terms of the game was not as scientific as it is now (this is all hearsay which is up for debate as I was only 17 at this stage)

So now not to be a negative nanny, but the worrying thing for me is that the Springboks look like they are playing solely on instinct and passion. There defense is more desperate and covering than ordered and decisive, and Oz is a team that can exploit this. In short I felt more confident of White’s team than the current one. You can bash White all you want but he did his homework on the tightness of World Cup games and executed his plans masterfully.

Having said that no matter what happens I will be proud of John Smit and the boys. Let’s hope the Bokke passion completely annihilates the nancy boys from Down Under! Go bokke!

The equivalent is: “Poor schooling is to blame, is it?”

Excessive use of “is” in a “lesson” on sentence construction shows an inferior “teacher” at work.

Ahem… Model “C”, I presume??

This was balanced and more objective. Also, it seems that you took the time to analyse some statistics and present them to us, ones which I was certainly unaware of..

Well done, chap.