If
I am the only parent who still corrects his child's English, then perhaps my son is right. To him, I am a tedious oddity: a father he is obliged to listen to and a man
absorbed in the rules of grammar, which my son seems allergic to
I think I got serious about this only recently when I ran into one of my former students,
fresh from an excursion to Europe. "How was it? "I asked, full of earnest anticipation
She nodded three or four times, searched the heavens for the right words, and then
exclaimed, "It was, like, whoa!
And that was it. The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture were
captured in a condensed non-statement My students"whoa!"was exceeded only by
my head-shaking distress
There are many different stories about the downturn in the
use of English
they're or the
Surely students should be able to distinguish between their
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