Grammar is a joyful thing! I hear you cry: ‘Huh?’.  But ‘tis true - trust me. (I’m a doctor.)

Did you spot the seven ‘grammatical errors’ in that paragraph?

A copy editor might strike out the colon before the quoted speech (‘Huh?’) and the full stop after it. S/he’d howl at the archaic ‘‘tis’. That good person would exchange the hyphen for a full stop and protest that you can’t start a sentence with a conjunction: ‘But’. No doubt, s/he would also replace the first...
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