Me, Myself and I

[MattBackHome]

Those John Smith adverbs with Peter Kay were briliant.

 

[NMH]

If I remember rightly, BAG is studying French and German so she'll have come across some grammar.

I know what you mean though Brovian. I learned about grammar from doing Latin for five years - it took me years to work out that English had active/passive and subjunctive/indicatibe too. English grammar just wasn't taught at all in the 60s/70s.

Romans, they go the house? Conjugate the verb 'to go' !

 

[dougdeep]

Grammar?

 

[coach03]

Grammar?

She's at home with me Gramdad........

 

[Yorkie]

If I remember rightly, BAG is studying French and German so she'll have come across some grammar.

I know what you mean though Brovian. I learned about grammar from doing Latin for five years - it took me years to work out that English had active/passive and subjunctive/indicatibe too. English grammar just wasn't taught at all in the 60s/70s.

English grammar was taught in the 50/60s. I had to use verbs, adverbs, nouns and adjectives in their correct ways in the 11+ exam.

This was then taught more extensively at the Grammar school that I attended.

 

[Gwylan]

English grammar was taught in the 50/60s. I had to use verbs, adverbs, nouns and adjectives in their correct ways in the 11+ exam.

This was then taught more extensively at the Grammar school that I attended.

I went to grammar school too but I think the dread hand of 60s' educational theory had had its effect by then. We had no formal grammar training in English.

I took my 11+ in 1968, I don't remember doing any formal grammar in it: we might have had to put the right form of words in a sentence - but wouldn't have known what they were called.

 

[Brovion]

I went to grammar school too but I think the dread hand of 60s' educational theory had had its effect by then. We had no formal grammar training in English.

I took my 11+ in 1968, I don't remember doing any formal grammar in it: we might have had to put the right form of words in a sentence - but wouldn't have known what they were called.

We actually had an English teacher (I use the word losely) who said "Look, I'm not going to lay a heavy learning trip down on you kids. They're just words, use them how you want." Grammar and spelling were never corrected and we grew up pig-ignorant of the mechanics of language. People go on about the Tories ruining education, but the rot was started by hard-line 60s Socialists.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Correct. Still BAG I'm impressed that you even know about active and passive. I was a victim of that botched attempt at social engineering called 'Comprehensive Schools'. I was 13 before I found out that English had verbs.

i was 16 before i learnt what a verb was, even then i only learnt that from german! I never learnt grammar in English, only in French and German!

Learning the plu-perfect in French at the moment - thats just horrible!