Errors in English usage

Working at the reception desk for an airline can be hard work when you consider all the different people you have to hold with.

They had not allowed for the high demand there would be for evening meals among the participants and so the dining hall was always overpopulated then.

The leader of the group has to produce a progression report at the end of each financial year so that shareholders know how successful the company has been.

The waiter insisted that I paid the bill with cash although I wanted to pay by cheque.

Anyone who arrived after that timing had to sign below the line and was therefore late.

There was however one small matter that Mary had overseen the day she was early because the office was shut as it was Sunday.

Those sorts of violent protest only help to mitigate against the very argument for peace that you are making.

They've sent far too many of these items and thus they are supercilious to our requirements.

He's always losing his temper, shouting and getting himself into a terrible state of range.

It was cheaper to take out a prescription for the magazines than to buy them separately each month.