Our grammar schools: Why do they not furnish more and better material to our high schools? A lecture read before the Massachusetts Teachers Association, at Springfield, October 19th, 1867.Henry F. Harrington
Many schools are operating under the Common Core standards. Grammar is a huge part of the English Language Arts branch…just look at theLanguageandWritingcategories. Even before many states moved to Common Core, we had state standards. Every set of standards includes grammar. Why? It’s necessary!
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Once I started using it, I realized I wrote comma-heavy, complex sentences with a lot of passive verbs. Seeing the same errors again and again helped me get better. Errors are typically underlined with colored hints (red for grammar, blue for punctuation). Clicking on the error gives you ...
Finland’s schools were not always a wonder. Until the late 1960s, Finns were still emerging from the cocoon of Soviet influence. Most children left public school after six years. (The rest went to private schools, academic grammar schools or folk schools, which tended to be less rigorous....
Lin Fang asked about the fundamental of the rites. “A significant question!” said the Master. “In ritual performance,it would be better to be thrift than lavish; in mourning service, it would be better to be deep in grief than minute in observance.” ...
“commuting costs are on the rise”. Yetit’s equally important to be able to speak using simple language, andfrankly speakingthere are occasions when foreign English speakers are overdoing their speech in terms of grammar constructs and vocabulary because we don’t want to look bad in front ...
So, why do writers balk at learning how to become better self-editors?The reasons I’ve heard are: There are too many rules. I can’t remember them all. I didn’t learn how in high school.How is it going to be any different now?
This is a particularly common phenomenon when it comes to speaking a new language. No matter how much we’ve studied, or how well we know the grammar and vocabulary, we’re still scared to actually speak the language aloud. What if we make a mistake? What if we embarrass ourselves?
Can native speakers be wrong about Chinese grammar and pronunciation? Why listening in Chinese is particularly hard There are several reasons to believe that listening in Chinese is indeed harder than in many other languages. Naturally, difficulty is relative, so languages you already know will direc...