Grammar school

Students should graduate high school knowing proper grammar. I say this because they can get a good job that way. Students could also get into the college that they want. With good grammar the students would look even more educated than other students applying to the same school. Also it's important for students to have proper grammar after high school. The students are going to be adults it's necessary for them to have it. The internet can also help with this. The outside world is not going to care about students with poor grammar, they are not going to be taken seriously. Its an easy and fast way to get a good job with proper grammar. In the article “I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar And Here's Why”, Kyle Wiens stated, “If job hopefuls…

Are grammar schools an effective way to improve social mobility? For my extended project qualification I have decided to write an essay based on my research and findings. The topic of my extended project qualification is grammar schools, and I will investigate whether or not they are an effective way to improve social mobility. Currently this topic is very topical and proving to be quite controversial. After I have finished studying for my A levels, I intend to apply to a university to study in…

proper English grammar. Granted, Esteban was new to speaking English – hence why he wanted to lose his accent – so calling him out on it was neither polite nor reasonable. People will occasionally make grammar mistakes when writing or communicating, and that is understandable. However, grammar is important to teach to students because it is closely related to detail orientation, an individual’s credibility, and is vital in terms of communication. Schools should focus on grammar because it is…

linguistic use they simply consider how our sentences are organized, and sincerely after grade school they have no idea how to truly put into syntax. Many individuals detest language structure on account of how much linguistic use was constrained upon them growing up, I was one of those individuals. When I got to school, I understood, that I give careful consideration to linguistic use than I suspected. Punctuation is truly essential to the English dialect, we utilize sentence structure, each…

How do we decide what is correct and incorrect in terms of grammar and who decides this? Prescriptive rules and language authority are often talked about in the book How English Works by Anne Curzan and Michael Adams (Curzan and Adams, 2012). After doing some reading and research, the usage of prescriptive grammar rules in my future classroom would be very limited. I would limit these rules based off of language authority and grammar rules. Back to the question stated in the introduction, who…

is analysed in terms of four strata: Context, Semantics, Lexico-Grammar and Phonology-Graphology. Context concerns the Field (what is going on), Tenor (the social roles and relationships between the participants), and the Mode (aspects of the channel of communication, e.g., monologic/dialogic, spoken/written, +/- visual-contact, etc.). Systemic semantics includes what is usually called 'pragmatics'. Semantics is divided into three components: • Ideational Semantics (the propositional content); •…

It is becoming increasing difficult to ignore the lack of knowledge of grammar amongst the current generation of population which is very much evident by the content of text messages or emails they send. To illustrate this point, the author, Kitty Burns Florey in this essay, refers to the old style of diagramming, which was used to teach the rules of grammar and parts of speech, recalling her experience during her sixth grade. She explains the diagrams taking the example of Sister Bernadette’s…

In this world of 140 characters, instant messages, and emails possessing good business writing skills are still important. When email or other written communication is sent, it is out there for people to judge. Your correspondences not only reflect on you, but on your organization as well, so it’s essential to get it right. For my development goal, I decided to improve my written communication skills by completing several courses through our Judicial Online University (JOU). The eleven…

science, social studies, and other content areas. This is with the purpose of helping students to become better learners. However, many students who came from a different country do not take any benefit from it. Teachers these days can be very talented in their areas of concentration, but they certainly are not trained to help English as a Second Language (ESL) students. With the increasing amount of immigrants coming to the U.S, schools and teachers need to acquire a new responsibility, which…

I have used it while in high school, on the job, and in the military. I currently used it while attending Claflin University talking with my professors, peers, and administrative personnel. In part “a” of my conversation, I used my text messages with a family friend who name is Davise Angevine. We have been friends or as we like to state, “Brothers from another mother” since 2011. He was totally fine with me using our dialogue for this class. As in part A, you will find slang, misspelled words,…