atw: Re: SEC: UNCLASS re: Pet hates

>They'll have to go in the Blacklist. Mind you, I wonder if it's realistic to
>expect people to distinguish between adjectives and adverbial phrases when
>so many seem to go through school without learning even what adjectives,
>nouns and verbs are. ('Now when I was your age ...') 
>  
>
Yes... this would have to be the biggest problem I have faced in being a 
technical writer - not having had more than 2-3 formal lessons in 
English grammar!  Our German teacher taught us more about English 
grammar than our English teachers ever did.  *sigh*

Fortunately for me, my mother is very literate (is literacy an absolute? 
Is it possible to be more, or less, literate?) and I read a lot as a 
child... and picked up grammar as I went along.  I keep meaning to do 
some serious reading on the subject, with the idea that I could apply 
actual rules, as opposed to feelings of what is generally correct, to my 
work! :-)

- Naomi
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