Tim Bonham wrote:
Gee, Jim, you've fallen hook, line, & sinker for one of the older
hoaxes on the internet. It's been floating around for at least 6
years now.
That may be true to a point, but the English grammar section of the
"test" was a standard benchmark at St. Teresa of Avila School when I
graduated 8th grade in 1958. I no longer can recite all the rules, but I
have internalized them (not really much of a task when we are bathed in
English every day). But we did have tests like the grammar section. Sr.
Mary Nicholas was very clear about how long our parents had authorized
us to be in 8th grade if we couldn't parse a sentence, diagram it, give
examples of this and that, use and identify a gerund, state the rules
for the subjunctive and apply said rules to a sentence of our own
making, and on and on. Having "does not work up to his/her potential"
carefully scribed onto one's report card in that copperplate (?)
trained-by-nuns script kept me diagramming sentences and memorizing the
rules until I had it down to a science.
WizardMarks, Central
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