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Sep 2023
12:09pm, 12 Sep 2023
22,659 posts
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ChrisHB
Making your meaning clear without commas is to be commended.
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Sep 2023
12:18pm, 12 Sep 2023
9,999 posts
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GordonG
"King Charles sends Kim Jong-Un a message as he heads to Russia to meet Putin" I think this is correct by all rules of grammar, yet I understood it to mean that Charles was heading to Russia. Normally "he" would refer to the most recently-mentioned male, wouldn't it? Anyone else?
I don't think I understand your question. In your example, isn't KJ-U the most recently mentioned male anyway?
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Sep 2023
1:30pm, 12 Sep 2023
12,147 posts
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sallykate
This reminds me of a conversation I had with someone in the halls kitchen when I'd just gone to university. Someone had bought a saucepan from a charity shop and said, "I've boiled some water in it to sterilise it." I then asked why he wanted to sterilise the water...
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Sep 2023
6:03pm, 12 Sep 2023
22,661 posts
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ChrisHB
I was wondering if anyone else read the sentence wrongly, defying grammar and their knowledge of current affairs.
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Sep 2023
8:36pm, 12 Sep 2023
3,218 posts
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paulcook
I was wondering if anyone else read the sentence wrongly, defying grammar and their knowledge of current affairs.
Intriguing point because would either of these two options below be wrong? "as he" in the two options refers to different grammatical entities. The implication is, as you say, in knowledge of current affairs.
'King Charles sends Kim Jong-Un a message as he heads to Russia to meet Putin'
'Kim Jong-Un receives message from King Charles as he head to Russia to meet Putin'
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Sep 2023
9:36am, 13 Sep 2023
22,662 posts
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ChrisHB
but I don't know whether it should be jeweller's or jewellers' or if either will do.
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Sep 2023
11:25am, 13 Sep 2023
100,161 posts
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swittle
I'd choose jewellers' - or escape that choice by ending the sentence, 'jewellery premises'.
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Sep 2023
11:55am, 13 Sep 2023
3,221 posts
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paulcook
*more than !!!!
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Sep 2023
1:13pm, 13 Sep 2023
19,619 posts
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Cerrertonia
I'm OK with the term "jewellers" being applied both to the physical shop and to the people working inside the building, and the Cambridge and Collins English dictionaries seem to agree. I don't think an apostrophe is required.
I'm also in firm agreement with paulcook though 
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Sep 2023
11:05pm, 13 Sep 2023
7,433 posts
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Helegant
Unlike Cerratonia I flinched when I read that. And I'm a 'more than' person too.
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