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for the past 50 years, American students were taught bullshit
housetier:
This is a rather good slam of an old grammar book, "The Elements of Style" from 1959.
This was most unfortunate for the field of English grammar, because both authors were grammatical incompetents.-http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i32/32b01501.htm
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Of the four pairs of examples offered to show readers what to avoid and how to correct it, a staggering three out of the four are mistaken diagnoses.-http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i32/32b01501.htm
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Several generations of college students learned their grammar from the uninformed bossiness of Strunk and White, and the result is a nation of educated people who know they feel vaguely anxious and insecure whenever they write "however" or "than me" or "was" or "which," but can't tell you why.-http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i32/32b01501.htm
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read 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
I find it very good. And it is very readable for me as a non-native speaker. I think I'll be watching chronicle.com for more articles to improve grammar and style.
What's your take? Do you hesitate to use "however", do you avoid "which" at the beginning of a sentence at all costs? Do you think your English education in school was sufficient?
cranioscopical:
What's your take? Do you hesitate to use "however", do you avoid "which" at the beginning of a sentence at all costs? Do you think your English education in school was sufficient?
-housetier (April 17, 2009, 07:09 PM)
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Which question to answer was a hard choice, however there are more here to respond than me. ;)
Darwin:
What's your take? Do you hesitate to use "however", do you avoid "which" at the beginning of a sentence at all costs? Do you think your English education in school was sufficient?
-housetier (April 17, 2009, 07:09 PM)
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Which question to answer was a hard choice, however there are more here to respond than me. ;)
-cranioscopical (April 17, 2009, 07:49 PM)
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Wow! The above is REALLY cringe-inducing (WRT grammatical construction). Bravo :Thmbsup:
;D
cranioscopical:
Wow! The above is REALLY cringe-inducing (WRT grammatical construction)
-Darwin (April 17, 2009, 09:54 PM)
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I don't got no skulin'!
johanna0507:
LOL, do they have to get to COLLEGE (uni) level to learn basic grammar rules like that???!!!
I am not even a native speaker but I knew this stuff when I was ~13...
No wonder the US is losing its' status as a super power!!
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