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need help with 5th grade english :banghead:
saint:
Gah. I diagramed sentences until my hand fell off in high school.
Geography is where my education failed me. Only had one brief bit of it in my K-12 education that I can recall, and it was United States centric.
daywane:
to true...
I can not spell a lick or tell a noun from a verb
need a jet engine rebuilt.
yep I can do it.
did it for 4 years in the navy
need a PC built. I can do that
most car repair is also OK
English.... I suck and all ways will.
I have no real intrest in it
I passed 12th grade at 17
I am 41 now. never had to use it till one of my kids needed help
Daniel270:
--- Quote from: saint on February 22, 2007, 09:36:43 pm ---Gah. I diagramed sentences until my hand fell off in high school.
Geography is where my education failed me. Only had one brief bit of it in my K-12 education that I can recall, and it was United States centric.
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The perfect Geography/Math problem for you, Saint....
You live in Chicago. There's a mint Centipede in Denver as well as a mint Dragon's Lair in Atlanta. How many miles round trip would that be and how long would it take you to drive to both destinations, then return home safely?
:D :D
sphetr2:
--- Quote from: daywane on February 22, 2007, 09:37:40 pm ---too true...
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8)
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 22, 2007, 08:33:54 pm ---I write well. I've had many english classes in my life, including four college-level english classes. I did not learn to correctly identify all the parts of speech until I had to in order to learn a second language. It was really tough in the beginning, because foreign language professors tend to take for granted that you know english correctly (which I did, intuitively, but I couldn't articulate the rules or apply labels to adverbs and articles and prepositions, etc.).
Long story short, your educational system has failed you. They do not emphasize the importance of grammar and writing nearly enough in school.
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They do at my school. Or, at least, my English teacher does. I have learned more about grammar, etc. this year than all other years combined. Seriously, my English teacher is such a great person. How many of you had a teacher who advocates objectivism in high school?
ChadTower:
The year we were supposed to cover English parts of speech my English teacher got sent to Kuwait. The replacement nun made us read Shakespeare out loud in class for 6 months.
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