A "pet peeve" of mine: the superfluous and ungrammatical "as" used by people who are incapable of distinguishing between two different constructions:
xxI am not as big as he is
xxxxand
xxBig as I am, he is bigger
and who, in the second case, insist on writing
xxAs big as I am, he is bigger.
Last edited by Brian Allgar; 02-23-2016 at 07:31 AM.
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