Tense sense

2009-03-20T00:00:00

I wonder whether you could exert some grammatical influence over your columnist Owen Hatherley? His otherwise thoughtful article on Milton Keynes (Urban trawl March 6) uses that creeping colloquialism: “we find two men and a dog sat outside”.

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