BBC News grammatical triumphs
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All three acts confer cash penalties for each violation of their terms. If the men are found guilty and all penalties are applied, the two men could face a damages bill running into millions.
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1. Unless fines have become something good for the recipient while I wasn't watching, "confer" should be replaced by "impose". 2. "Cash" should be replaced with "monetary" or so. Assuming one can pay the fines with something other than sacks of pennies. 3. "..the two men.." should be replaced with "they". Or delete "the men are". 4. The spammers this article's on about should be pecked to death by 400lb bio-engineered combat chickens whilst their childhood enemies look on, flicking salt. But I guess that's a legislative error, not a grammatical one.