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Then they get rejected. As I said, isn't that the purpose of entrance interviews and exams? To weed out those lacking the competence...

Whatevver you end up using, you might want to consider introducing the term in a series of conversations that start with different words...

There are II kinds of people: those that understand Roman numerals and those that don't.

This happens all the time when I edit my posts. Change "it works" to "will work" and then don't proof adequately. Right. But is uni any...

Apparently that's how things used to be but aren't the case for the past several decades. Instead of teaching grammar, the emphasis...

Right but I think this thread is missing the forest here. If we know the problem is in elementary and high school, why are we talking...

I do not not take credit. That goes to my eleventh grade English teacher who felt very strongly that grammar was critically important to...

Well, there's your problem.

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Who led the group? If it was Dave say, just call it Dave's group.

Correct. I mastered it by high school. Then why did they get accepted? That's a rhetorical question. My point being that if theyre not...

Isn't that what grade school is for? Why waste time in uni on the basics? Isn't that what application interviews and entrance exams are...

Yes, exactly what I said to myself 16,000 words ago. It's how I got through 60+ pages. But the time is coming to refine my terms. I've...

No, not really; I'm predicting what readers will think. That's what matters. If I want them to think "the group of children and youths"...

The term's definition is a good description, but I'm not sure I can use the term. It is not self-explanatory. "He picked as many herbs...