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Being cool now has come to include poor grammar and mispronunciations so often that I've gone into the closet with my grammar nerdiness.
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Is grammar taught in school now? Does it matter?
I've gotta wonder. Someone once told me his son wasn't being taught multiplication tables. Grammar could be next.
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Aug 1, 2014 - 1:13 PM
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joan hue
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I’m in schools many times each year, and schools do teach grammar which is the study of how to put words together to form sentences. They also teach the ancillary skills of punctuation, spelling, and capitalization rules. Students don’t seem very thrilled to learn these writing tools, but they are taught. I’ve heard students compare such studies to root canals.
When they are learning to talk, children basically learn grammar from their parents. Parents may say, “Me and him are going down town.” “He don’t know nothing.” Those speech patterns are pretty well ingrained in children during their language formative years. My husband is well-educated, but he learned very poor grammar from his parents and had to work hard to change his speaking patterns.
If I have to write something quickly and don’t have time for revisions and editing, I find that I do make errors. The best way to avoid this is to leave your written piece for a few hours and then revisit it with fresh eyes, but we don’t always have time to do revisits.
I agree with Grecchus. I don’t really care if someone makes a few errors as long as I can comprehend the message. No one is perfect. On the other hand, significant egregious errors diminishes communication.
I think too many people rely on the spelling and grammar check to fix their problems. Those grammar checks are not accurate. Many times I’ve ignored some of those suggestions because I know they’re wrong.
I worry about how texting language or abbreviations may harm written language. U no wot I meen?
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Aug 2, 2014 - 10:00 AM
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CinemaScope
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I left school at fifteen (1966), so can be no grammar nerd, but it does bug me when people leave out apostrophes from contractions. And the old, there-their-they're & to-too-two, & a few others. I did once point out that someone had used the wrong "to" in a thread heading (it made the title nonsense), & got a lot of flak for that. I don't see a problem ending a sentence in a proposition, sometimes it's awkward not to, & I see no problem in splitting an infinitive. There's probable a few grammar errors in this post (should I start a sentence with...And?), but at least I'm trying.
And I have to say, I still don't see a problem in...five items or less. That's five items, or less than five items, all very clear to me, & less is a nice hard word, whereas fewer is a bit of a nothing word, sounds like a quiet fart.
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wavy lines are bad. And should be shot.
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