Jobs & Education1 min ago
Do schools still
............... teach English Language as a subject?
I've noticed more and more recently that people don't seem to know the difference between:
Your - belonging to you
You're - you are
Is there a teacher who can tell me why this isn't considered important anymore?
I've noticed more and more recently that people don't seem to know the difference between:
Your - belonging to you
You're - you are
Is there a teacher who can tell me why this isn't considered important anymore?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I work at a primary school (year 6) age 10/11 and we certainly try to make them aware of all these words, homophones, as it makes a huge difference to their writing. I cannot tell you if English Language (grammar) is taught separately at secondary level. I still have difficulty accepting that now it is considered perfectly legitimate to start a sentence with 'because' something that in my old fashioned English Language lessons during the 1960's was considered inappropriate!!
Possibly the position we're looking at is that the internet's growth means far more people are writing than was the case for decades, and that this reveals the simple fact that most people just don't understand complex written English grammar. Thye have good speaking skills and understand what they and others are saying and meaning, but the ins and outs of correct positioning of apostrophes is just a bit hit n miss. And then there's text speak....