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In reply to the discussion: For those who still don't know that plurals in English are generally not spelled with an apostrophe [View all]ashling
(25,771 posts)44. Knowing your shit is not the question - Communicating your shit is
Last edited Sun Jun 24, 2012, 07:53 PM - Edit history (1)
" Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express."
~ William Cobbett
~ William Cobbett
I use this quote in my government class. Effective communication is a component of critical thinking.
I have had kids in college who's grammar was so bad as to make their writing incomprehensible. I required one student to visit the campus writing center before I would grade any more of her work.
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For those who still don't know that plurals in English are generally not spelled with an apostrophe [View all]
DFW
Jun 2012
OP
All those M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s in the English department haven't been minding their p's and q's.
retread
Jun 2012
#5
When I say it's the exception that proves the rule, I use 'prove' in its old meaning of test.
dimbear
Jun 2012
#16
Yeah, but "Find a heaven for you and my" is just INVITING a dangerous final line.
MiddleFingerMom
Jun 2012
#13