[Gllug] Monthly GLLUG grammar report

[Pete Ryland]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:12:02AM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
> Tethys wrote:
> 
> >Quite how it's possible to get through school without learning at least
> >some minimal grasp of the English language is beyond me, but somehow
> >people manage it.
> 
> You left school quite some time ago, or at least didn't go to any as bad 
> as I did. After asking about things like this I realised that teachers 
> didn't have a clue about how to explain these things to us. Some 
> teachers would contradict what other teachers had told us and vice 
> versa. Even now my english is still pretty bad, spoken english is not so 
> bad but when trying to deal with correct punctuation I find it a real 
> headache. This is now why I have no faith in the education system in 
> this country, its not that you can blame the kids, you should be blaming 

its -> it's :)

> the teachers.
> 
> Thanks
> Adam
> PS feel free to correct my writing as applicable.

Done.

Pete

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