Punctuation isn't just for English A-level. It belongs to the language you speak and write and should, ideally, have been mastered long before you reached GCSE standard. Unfortunately, these kind of basic English Language skills are exactly what has been missing from the curriculum during the past 40 years. It used to be standard, now it is seen as specialised.
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Grammer / Spelling
- Thread starter Sheebo
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Punctuation isn't just for English A-level. It belongs to the language you speak and write and should, ideally, have been mastered long before you reached GCSE standard. Unfortunately, these kind of basic English Language skills are exactly what has been missing from the curriculum during the past 40 years. It used to be standard, now it is seen as specialised.
looney
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Correcting the corrector of correctors.
It wasn't the end of a sentence, I used a comma.
looney
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It was the end of a sentence. Inserting a comma instead of a full-stop doesn't stop it being a sentence.
Nottseagull
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Unfortunately, these kinds of basic English Language skills are exactly what have been missing from the curriculum during the past 40 years.
Thank you. I should have read it back to myself!
looney
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Erm yes it does. Thats what commas are for.
I counted 5 errors in 5 sentences, you have an A level in English?
That is a complete sentence punctuated as the second part(A question) references the first. That makes more sense than having short abrupt sentences and stops the question part refering to my last sentence, which was a comment.
- Oct 17, 2008
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seagullsovergrimsby
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It is two separate sentences, one of them being a question.
I counted five errors in five sentences. You have an A-level in English?
For it to be one sentence, you need to insert the word "yet":
I counted five errors in five sentences, yet you have an A-level in English?
AuntAgonist
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- Apr 29, 2011
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Oh my God. do you have an A Level in English? I bloody hope not, as you do not understand what constitutes a sentence. And your grasp of clauses (have you heard of them?) is probably just as weak.
It's our own fault. I was never taught proper grammar in school, and nobody had ever heard of précis, let alone the teachers. Bloody National Curriculum.
Nottseagull
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An A-level in English is less of an indication of competence than an O-level in English Language. In my day at least, A-level English was just English Literature, the reason that I didn't take it. I am, of course, referring to 'real' A and O-levels, i.e. GCEs.
looney
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- Jul 7, 2003
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No beacause in your correction the comma would be not needed, replaced with and.
I counted five errors in five sentences and yet you have an A-level in English?
The comma use also reflects the rhetorical nature of the question. Sheebo has already stated he has an A level in English so just to state it as a question would reflect an accusation of dishonesty. This is also reflected in your false correction which also reads as rhetorical rather than accusational.
I counted five errors in five sentences and yet you have an A-level in English?
The comma use also reflects the rhetorical nature of the question. Sheebo has already stated he has an A level in English so just to state it as a question would reflect an accusation of dishonesty. This is also reflected in your false correction which also reads as rhetorical rather than accusational.
Nottseagull
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Lord Bracknell
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When did grammar, spelling and punctuation start to be part of the 'A'-level English curriculum? When I was young, we were taught these things at primary school. It would have been impossible to start learning Latin at the age of 11, without a solid grounding in the basics of language.
'A'-level English was all about the novels of Thomas Hardy, the poetry of Chaucer and Auden, and the plays of Shakespeare, not how to write English.
'A'-level English was all about the novels of Thomas Hardy, the poetry of Chaucer and Auden, and the plays of Shakespeare, not how to write English.
looney
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- Jul 7, 2003
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So after Hovagirl's "corrections". The meaning has changed from what I originally meant, a rehtorical question to express irony and sarcasm to one of an accusation of dishonesty.
Yea that really works.
Nottseagull
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Given the nature of the thread and the repercussions of making such errors, why wouldn't you have done?
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Lord Bracknell
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Don't you mean
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