Nationwide March 2014 - +0.4% MOM + 9.5% YOY

Graham_Devon

“There is little doubt that the recovery in the housing market
is now firmly established

http://www.nationwide.co.uk/~/media/MainSite/documents/about/house-price-index/Mar_2014.pdf

I'm hoping this suffices.

I've checked for spelling errors and my grammar seems OK? What's more, I've taken my quoting skills to the next level.

All good news. :beer::j

mayonnaise

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I've checked for spelling errors and my grammar seems OK? What's more, I've taken my quoting skills to the next level.

Nice work.
I would just put closing quotation marks at the end of the quoted bit, but I'm nit-picking now.

purch

I'm not sure that there is a plural of Suffice.

Personally I would have said "I hope that this will suffice"

So 8 1/2 out of Ten.

The rest of the post is completely irrelevant and only of interest to a weird minority of people with strange interests.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

the upturn in the supply side of the market continues to lag far behind, with the number of new homes being built in England still around 40% below pre-crisis levels (and this was already insufficient to keep up with the increase in the number of households being formed).

You can't fix a housing shortage by restricting finance for mortgages and developers.

All you do is make the problem worse and cause even higher prices later on.

Graham_Devon

mayonnaise wrote: »

Nice work.
I would just put closing quotation marks at the end of the quoted bit, but I'm nit-picking now.

I didn't think I was supposed to alter the quote? Thought the trick was simply to stop quoting mid sentence?

I'm still learning the correct way. So please bear with me.

mayonnaise

purch wrote: »

I'm not sure that there is a plural of Suffice.

Personally I would have said "I hope that this will suffice"

So 8 1/2 out of Ten.

It's not a plural, Graham used it as a verb.

To suffice.
Suffices.
Sufficed.
Sufficing.

It's all good. Please review your score to 10 out of 10, thanks

Generali

purch wrote: »

I'm not sure that there is a plural of Suffice.

Personally I would have said "I hope that this will suffice"

It's a transient verb so you are right strictly spanking.

However, English is correct in usage rather than by specific rules. I reckon it's reasonable to say that suffices has become correct through usage.

Graham_Devon

purch wrote: »

I'm not sure that there is a plural of Suffice.

Personally I would have said "I hope that this will suffice"

So 8 1/2 out of Ten.

Thank you for your critique.

I believe I used a verb. A verb to be used with a 3rd person present.

Though there appears to be 4 of us present now, so I'm lost.

The rest of the post is completely irrelevant and only of interest to a weird minority of people with strange interests.

Awww. But my post got commended as "nice work".

mayonnaise

Generali wrote: »

It's a transient verb so you are right strictly spanking.

That suffices!

antrobus

mayonnaise wrote: »

Nice work.
I would just put closing quotation marks at the end of the quoted bit, but I'm nit-picking now.

That might be because the OP was eager to cut off the quote before it got to the bit about "tentative signs of moderation".

Graham_Devon

antrobus wrote: »

That might be because the OP was eager to cut off the quote before it got to the bit about "tentative signs of moderation".

Interesting that you spelling and grammar hawks haven't picked up the real reason for the lack of a closing quotation yet.