>>>    + What is the average flight time?
> 
> That's a question. :-)

Yes. THAT is a question. The other one isn't.

Worryingly, I see this kind of thing a lot of official test papers...

> Or commas. Or, most recently, quotation marks to "mean" emphasis.

That's not as bad as people who do that thing with their fingers when 
speaking out loud to mean quotation marks.

This in itself is less bad than my mum's pathology of repeating words to 
differentiate them. "This is the total. Well, I mean, it's not the 
*total* total, but it's the total." WTF?

>> -  The progressive tense of the verb to die is dying, not "dieing". The
>> same goes for to lie -> lying.
> 
> And for all non-native speakers of English:
> The past tense of bind is bound.
> Having a limit is being bounded.

I haven't come across either of these mistakes myself...

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