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Totally, agree. One of the greatest gifts I got in life was that I went to school in the days when spelling and grammar counted.
I can still diagram the heck out a sentence.
The new math rolled in at 5th grade, so I never did well in math after that, but at least I can soar on good writing. Imagine the poor kid who can't write a decent paragraph or do math.
I have no idea how to diagram a sentence. It was taught when I was in school, but I never learned how. (I was a jerk in school) My best friend is an English teacher and she says, for the most part, it's not taught anymore. She does, though. She insists on it.
I remember when New Math rolled in. I was very confused. Thank goodness my teachers had the autonomy to exercise discretion and, before long, abandoned it.
I have terrible grammar skills. I still struggle with punctuation rules. My biggest pet peeve about grammar rules is they always appear to be changing. Once I learn something one way, they, grammar police, have to go and change it. I really wish I would have learned how to properly use grammar in the correct context. I am frustrated by the fact that I had teachers in elementary and middle school who felt it was necessary to shame me, when I made a mistake, in front of the class. That really messes with a child's psych at a young age. I take full responsibility for my inability to learn, due to undiagnosed learning disabilities, but why is the english/american language so difficult to learn. I would hate to be a foreigner trying to learn English. Luckily for me, I have learned to work on my grammar.
For the longest time I thought people were putting a semicolon after a name. So, for instance, they would day Dear ...;, it always looked like a semicolon to me. My Dad finally taught me that you only put a semicolon to connect two independent thoughts/clauses. Now I know not to put a semicolon after it.
I wish I wrote as well as you all and knew all the grammar rules. Any suggestions on easy ways to properly learn grammar?
I have terrible grammar skills. I still struggle with punctuation rules. My biggest pet peeve about grammar rules is they always appear to be changing. Once I learn something one way, they, grammar police, have to go and change it. I really wish I would have learned how to properly use grammar in the correct context. I am frustrated by the fact that I had teachers in elementary and middle school who felt it was necessary to shame me, when I made a mistake, in front of the class. That really messes with a child's psych at a young age. I take full responsibility for my inability to learn, due to undiagnosed learning disabilities, but why is the english/american language so difficult to learn. I would hate to be a foreigner trying to learn English. Luckily for me, I have learned to work on my grammar.
For the longest time I thought people were putting a semicolon after a name. So, for instance, they would day Dear ...;, it always looked like a semicolon to me. My Dad finally taught me that you only put a semicolon to connect two independent thoughts/clauses. Now I know not to put a semicolon after it.
I wish I wrote as well as you all and knew all the grammar rules. Any suggestions on easy ways to properly learn grammar?
Thank you folks.
Charles.
Read books published before computers and the internet were invented.
I had to re-read this to figure out exactly what was meant here: Woman stabbed 32 times to marry man who saved her
("A Tampa Bay Rays fan who miraculously survived being stabbed 32 times by an ex-boyfriend in 2012 received a romantic surprise on Monday when her current boyfriend proposed to her on the mound before the Rays hosted the New York Yankees.") Rays fan gets marriage proposal from man who saved her life
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