There their they're etc.

burglar said:

Yes, I did quote it, and note it. Because it is a quote, I did not correct it, if that's Ok !

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Please review your post and report back re superfluous comma use.

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Julia said:

My neighbour is a 33 year old accountant, turned teacher. She usually teaches accountancy and computer studies but was asked to teach a term in English.
She had to ask me what were a noun, adjective, verb etc. She's bright and intelligent but had simply never been taught when at school or during teacher training.
Unbelievable but true.

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That's literally unbelievable if she did her schooling in Australia. Every year between late primary school and the end of high school you study English, and every year the teacher will explain what verbs, nouns and adjectives are. Possibly you could slip through the gaps or have bad teachers for some of your school years, but not not every year for ten consecutive years. English is a compulsory subject until year 12 (or at least, it was until the end of the 90s) and if she is a teacher she completed high school.

Language standards are declining and your neighbour is slightly older than I am. I can certainly confirm that I was told about nouns, verbs and adjectives every year in high school. My memory of primary is a bit hazy, but I assume I was given the proper course. I do recall learning the words for the first time in grade... hmm... it was Mrs. Alexander, so it must have been grade three.

For some reason almost everyone forgets these three simple words, or mixes them up. I don't know why, but most people admit it's because they just couldn't get it, rather than pretending they were never told.

Bad language is becoming ubiquitous. I expect that caring about proper spelling and grammar will be considered archaic in the not too distant future. Blatant language errors (sometimes deliberate in advertising) are common just about everywhere, from billboards to company presentations to school work (these days often missed by the teacher who probably makes the same mistakes herself) to... well, everywhere. I cringed last time I bought something from eBay and received the 'congrats' message.

Sdajii said:

Bad language is becoming ubiquitous. I expect that caring about proper spelling and grammar will be considered archaic in the not too distant future.

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Oh Sdajii, I hope not! Surely there will always be people who love the language and its infinite diversity enough to continue to carry the banner and keep it alive?

Ruby said:

Oh Sdajii, I hope not! Surely there will always be people who love the language and its infinite diversity enough to continue to carry the banner and keep it alive?

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Indeed, and we will become increasingly rare and considered increasingly eccentric.

Eric Morecambe would often say, when on stage with Ernie Wise. '...in this play what I wrote...'

Seriously, the language of Shakespeare is a beautiful thing in the right hands. Use the power for good, not evil. That was a nuanced comment.

pls start a new thread for to two too 2 tutu etc and long sentences without capitals and with no comas :

Logique said:

Eric Morecambe would often say, when on stage with Ernie Wise. '...in this play what I wrote...'

Seriously, the language of Shakespeare is a beautiful thing in the right hands. Use the power for good, not evil. That was a nuanced comment.

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Quite so!

And the Queen's language is a beautiful thing in the left hands.