Common Errors

English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)

Common Errors

You have to ~pipe low~ for a while (nonstandard).
You have to pipe down for a while (standard). When you mean to say that a person should stop talking or to be less noisy, the phrase is “pipe down”.

Thanks for all you do; I cannot love you ~less~ (nonstandard).
Thanks for all you do; I cannot love you more (standard). To say you cannot do something less means that you completely dissociate with that thing and to say you can’t do it more means you completely embrace such thing.
GAB