When people say to me " Can I ask you a question?", I always reply "What? Another one ?".
My wife used to say to me "The lawn needs cutting badly !" to which I invariably riposted " No ! It needs cutting WELL !"
                     I remember reading all the "Saint" books,by Leslie Charteris. He always wrote "The Saint lighted another cigarette" , never "lit" !! (The cigarette was indeed "lit",because the Saint "lighted" it ! )
                I cannot STAND it when people say " I was sat in a chair" instead of "I was sitting in a chair", or "I was stood in the road" instead of "I was standing in the road". " I stood", or "I sat" are both fine,of course, but not ,ever,with "WAS" .I wonder how many so-called "teachers" actually know that ( or even care ??).