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Bad grammar has been around for years, but it seems that because the author is established, we over look it. Jane Austin in her book Emma: A mechanics guide to billing, contains so many grammatically incorrect statements that there is not enough space here to list them all. However, I couldn't resist quoting a few:
Emma Woodhouse's reported thoughts:
"for they say every body is in love once in their lives, and I shall have been let off easily."
Narrator:
"[Mr. Woodhouse] was happily placed, quite at his ease, ready to talk with pleasure of what had been achieved, and advise every body to come and sit down, and not to heat themselves."
Frank Churchill [on Box Hill]:
"I say nothing of which I am ashamed ... Let every body on the Hill hear me if they can."
Narrator's rephrasing of Emma Woodhouse's comments on the birth of Mrs. Weston's daughter:
"and Mrs. Weston -- no one could doubt that a daughter would be most to her; and it would be quite a pity that any one who so well knew how to teach, should not have their powers in exercise again."
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