The clause "his speech as well as his manners is objectionable" does not
sound right because the speaker (or writer) did not know (or did not care)
that a pause (or comma) should precede and follow 'as well as his manners'.
Should the speaker or writer have deliberately chosen not do so, that
omission is a personal prerogative that has no relation to the status of
Standard English.  The majority of educated speakers have to make the same
error consistently before the dictionaries recognize it as Standard English.

Scott
The sequence of tenses in the second sentence is deliberate: I am using 'is'
and 'has' in the aorist aspect of the present tense.

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