[lit-ideas] Re: Grammar Girl link
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:17:38 EST
Grammar was no longer taught formally in public school when I was growing
up. I learned almost anything I know about English by studying French and
Spanish, and later Greek and Hebrew. I started to understand my *own*
language
better by learning the others. I was, though, always a bit of a grammar
fanatic even as a kid -- I parsed sentences for the fun of it. No one was
taught
about conjugating verbs, even. The bare minimum -- nouns, verbs, adjectives,
adverbs, were all that were deemed necessary. I knew how to formulate a
correct sentence (mostly from reading literature), but I couldn't have said
why
a sentence was correct or incorrect grammatically until I was in junior high
school. Hence my absolute wincing when a document from a legal office was
rife with such errors as "when we went threw the goal today".
Julie Krueger
getting another headache just thinking about it
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I had to look up reflexive verbs too, Ursula. I was taught
English grammar the old-fashioned way (strong and weak verbs,
clause analysis/parsing), later learned the French verb tenses
and moods... but never came across that/
Judy
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From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:10 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Grammar Girl link
> Reflexive verbs? I'd heard of reflexive pronouns, but not
reflexive
> verbs. Googling explains why -- used only in other languages.
German
> was my first language, but I never formally studied it, so
didn't know
> the term from that. I also studied a bit of conversational
French when
> I first moved to Northern Ontario (lots of French here), but
again
> didn't learn much terminology. My mother would say
> Mann wirt so alt wie eine Kuh
> und lernt noch immer was dazu
> (spelling from memory)
> Ursula
> in sunny but cold North Bay
>
> JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I think we're back to transitives and intransitives....which
sort of
> > leads to reflexive verbs and of course we could talk about
> > subjunctives (which are horribly unclear in the English
language). Or
> > not.
>
>
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