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Re: Dangling prepositions and phrasal verbs.

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Sunday, June 20, 2004, 2:11
Ph. D. wrote:

> Ray Brown wrote: > >>But at some point, I think with the spread of comprehensive >>education, it was considered that grammar inhibited creative >>writing and gave those kids who couldn't analyze & parse a >>sense of inferiority - so grammar was downgraded (as was >>spelling & punctuation) and creativity was king. When I was >>involved in secondary education, scarcely any grammar was >>taught in English and not much in modern languages. I've >>been out of secondary education since 1990, but I don't think >>there's been any significant shift since then (not judging from >>the English my college students write) in English. > > > I think that pretty much sums up the case in the United > States. Creative writing was given top priority, and > grammar was considered unimportant.
...and that brings us to the state of the Internet today. :P