Public education
English teacher admits she’s illiterate. Well, I don’t think so. But a good read.
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September 12th, 2014 at 10:13 pm
I think using the “so-and-so and I” construct makes a person sound pompous.
Once when I playing golf, one of the people I was in the foursome with had his young daughter driving his cart. She was going to college to be a teacher. When not actively driving she was reading a book of some sort. At one point while were stopped during the round she paused in her reading, turned to me, and asked what the word “Stalwart” meant…
September 13th, 2014 at 1:08 am
Once when I playing golf, one of the people me was in the foursome with had his young daughter driving his cart.
Nope. Not pompous.
Did she at least pronounce “Stalwart” correctly?
September 13th, 2014 at 11:55 am
I don’t understand your point of changing my text to make that “I” into a “Me”, since their wasn’t a noun then the word “and” directly in front of it and therefore not what I was talking about. The missing “was” before “playing” is what I get for posting from a mobile….
“Did she at least pronounce “Stalwart” correctly?”
Actually, IIRC she had to show me the word in the book.
September 13th, 2014 at 3:09 pm
The rule is to leave the other person out and see if it’s right, then. Try it: “Cousin Cletus and me got into a brawl t his sister’s wedding. Ok, maybe not the shining example.
September 13th, 2014 at 3:13 pm
Oh, and the other person goes first. “… me and the headmistress…” indeed.
September 13th, 2014 at 8:49 pm
I am a Language Arts teacher. At my old middle school the principal had worse grammar than most of the kids. “I seen this thing” “Me and him went there” etc. It wasn’t just speech, he wrote like this as well. My Department head had hinted that maybe he should let someone edit any emails that were going out to parents, but that never happened. I cringed every time I read one.