Or is the statement absolutely correct?
2007-01-09 08:55:36 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Don't try to teach me English! I'm only learning after all ;)
2007-01-09 09:16:54 · update #1
its not proper...dear fellow.
2007-01-09 09:00:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, remove the dots and the question mark since this is not the question but the statement to which the question refers.
I don't need all this bollocks.
2007-01-09 09:09:17 · answer #2 · answered by phoneypersona 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's as correct as can be ...that is, it's the accepted way, to be grammatically correct would make it clumsy... all these bollocks or all this bollock. Just like the startrek intro, splitting an infinitive became the accepted form cos the correct way was too stilted!
Good luck with the bollox! lol
2007-01-09 09:09:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a slang phrase it is correct. Although bollocks as a term for testicles is plural, bollocks as a term for rubbish is singular.
2007-01-09 09:07:12 · answer #4 · answered by Andrea S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Strictly speaking it should be THESE bollocks but as you are using the slang meaning (rubbish)...what you said is correct.
2007-01-09 09:14:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-01-09 09:35:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It IS correct in the context. But the grammar would not work with any other type of phrase except slang.
2007-01-09 09:03:55 · answer #7 · answered by habbzz 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I suppose it should be I don't need all these bollocks, as bollocks is plural.
But that doesn't sound right.
2007-01-09 09:00:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
As a foreigner I don't find it precisely self-explanatory. I can only try to guess. However why wouldn't it be correct, it is just idiomatic ?
2007-01-09 09:14:56 · answer #9 · answered by aline b 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a slang term, so correctness isn't really relevant.
2007-01-09 09:02:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
if you said "i don't need this, bollocks" then it wud be but if you sed it all without a pause between 'this' and 'boolocks' then i wud sound incorrect
2007-01-09 09:18:31 · answer #11 · answered by SJ 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋