Quote:
|
and that my English teacher pounces on me for, is beginning a sentence with the word 'and'
|
That always happened to me, too.
Quote:
|
The point being that many of these rules (structural, grammatical etc) are there to be challenged.
|
It is this attitude (I have it towards everything having to do with school) that cements my status as an A-/B+ student rather than an A+ student.
Another thing that gets me in trouble is spelling. I'm always writing "grey" instead of "gray", "colour"- "color", "armour"- "armor", "theatre"- "theater", "defence"- "defense", etc....
Here's something I thought you might enjoy-
Quote:
|
I have noticed that some British tend to be more particular about split infinitives and prepositions at the end of a sentence, but those "rules" came from Latin and have little relevance in English. It was, in fact, Sir Winston Churchill who put to rest the "preposition cannot end a sentence rule" with his famous rejoinder that placing the preposition at the end of a sentence is "something up with which we will not put!"
|