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Tue 27 Feb, 2018 08:48 pm
Is the following statement correctly written and punctuated? Thank you.
At Manchester United, winning is not important, it’s the only thing that counts.
@paok1970,
It's fine, personally I'd drop the comma after MU, but that's just a matter of style. It's perfectly fine either way.
@izzythepush,
Where Man Utd is concerned, I personally would take the letter 'O' out of 'counts' but that's just me and has nothing to do with paok's question.
I would put 'just' or 'merely' before 'important'.
@centrox,
centrox wrote:
I would put 'just' or 'merely' before 'important'.
Agreed. I would also consider a semicolon between two independent but related clauses.
@paok1970,
The pitch is where plagiarism meets aphorism:
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Bill Shankly said 'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.'
@ekename,
ekename wrote:
The pitch is where plagiarism meets aphorism:
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
He should have stuck to the original aphorism.
@centrox,
Obviously, Bill Shankly is an idiot.
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