We received a reprieve most of the time in colloquial English, but never in written English.
One of the UK's largest building societies is giving staff grammar lessons after concerns about the standard of their written English.
Rhea Williams, chairman of the Queen's English Society Committee, said standards of spoken and written English were falling and the signs were "visible everywhere".
In addition to the essay section, the Writing section of the SAT tests the deviation between standard written English and the way we actually speak the language.
Virtual communication, such as information on their personal Web pages, has to be written in English.
This is explained by its originally having been written in English, so the Japanese version is a translation.
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Contracts were written under English (or perhaps Swedish or Swiss) law, money exchanged outside the country and so on.
This can become an issue if a dispute arises, because the U.S. courts only deal with contracts written in English.
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"It would be worth mentioning how ur personality has been attacked and praised in the last decade according to the media, " goes the e-mail, written in English.
On Thursday, North Korean officials turned over to China a 60-page declaration, written in English, that details several rounds of plutonium production at the Yongbyon plant dating back to 1986.
Though some fundamentalists appear to believe that the Bible was written in English, for the more thoughtful (or pious) Christian, serious study of the New Testament or the early Christian church is impossible without first knowing alpha from omega.
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Note that almost all CDS contracts are written under either English or American law as well.
Author Edmund White called it "the best book on gay life yet written by an English author".
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He clutches a piece of cardboard with a statement written out in English, which he wants to read for our cameras.
The petitions often are written in bad English, and some are in Chinese.
If this were not enough, they add plain text annexes, written in conversational English, that outline the spirit of the regulation and the principals behind it.
Check out these photos uploaded to Imgur, of Libyans holding signs written in broken English expressing apologies and regret over what transpired at the American embassy in their country.
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But those seeking to scrap bilingual education say that Hispanic youngsters should be encouraged to become completely fluent in written and spoken English if they are to have an equal chance in the jobs market.
Already, the agency is starting to do a whole bunch of things that are going to be important for consumers -- making sure loan contracts and credit card terms are simpler and written in plain English.
Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English.
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"Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).
Alpha had written to me in English, but the words, the sensibility, was African.
Mark Simmonds told MPs in a written ministerial statement that English wines were the second most popular.
It is a long and difficult novel (800 pages in its German edition), written in a quirky English.
Funny, how we never see any confusion over these pronouns in his book, which is written in largely impeccable English.
"A lot of the text strings we have been able to extract are written in very good English, " he said.
For those aged 18 to 25 years old a commentary about the artistic creation will also have to be included in the application, written in French or English.
For the written portion of the English tests, students "will need to answer questions with evidence gathered from rigorous literature and informational texts, " the department says.
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