Prince Charles Criticizes Poor English Grammar In The U.K.

November 27, 2008 6:16 a.m. EST

London, England (BANG) - Britain's Prince Charles has criticized the poor standards of English grammar in the United Kingdom. The prince - who was speaking at the Georgian Group awards in London's The Ritz hotel Wednesday - insisted people need to concentrate on using apostrophes properly and constructing sentences correctly.

He said: "It seems to me that you need to remind people every now and then that you can't communicate to people in a language unless you know the grammar and the syntax and, indeed, the punctuation."

Meanwhile, the prince also said Muslim communities have "enriched Britain in every sense" as he attended The Mosaic Talent Awards, a ceremony paying tribute to talented British Muslims, with Jordan's Princess Badiya bint El Hassan in London last night.

He said: "I was fascinated to hear the views of the imam of the Leeds Makkah Mosque (in the north of England) on how, through a wide range of initiatives including Mosaic, Britain seeks to integrate rather than isolate its minority communities and offers real freedom of choice and of expression."

"I have to say that it is this acceptance - indeed, this welcome - of diversity which makes me rather proud to be British."