Errors in English usage

As you probably know they are very organized people and when there are a lot of people at the bus stop they stand in a line.

We were having such an enjoyable time on our holiday that we visited our travel agent at the airport and asked whether it would be possible to lengthen our stay by another week.

By taking ahead with the proposal without reference to other members of the board, the chairman got into serious trouble.

We don't have a regular timetable, we simply meet periodic if and when there appear to be enough items to justify drawing up an agenda.

It's a very rare case indeed if a serious earthquake takes place in that country.

She told Mary that her lateness was now outside a joke and she had to try very hard to get up earlier.

But it didn't function at all because again and again Mary found herself signing below the famous line.

This is a complete reversal of the terms as they were originally laid out in the last will and testament.

To act in this disgraceful manner can only be described as contemptuous by anybody's standards.

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