Word: grammar
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...format, almost entirely multiple choice, is less demanding than many of the newfangled state exams, which require students to show their work on math problems and to answer essay questions. The writing segment of the Texas high school exit exam last spring consisted of just 40 multiple-choice grammar questions and a letter-writing assignment. A 1998 report by Harvard researcher Sandra Stotsky, commissioned by the Tax Research Association, concluded that the reading test declined in complexity in each of the previous three years. State officials deny the test has been watered down and say they're unveiling a more...
...Undergraduate Council overwhelmingly approved most of the constitutional amendments dealing with grammar and clarity which it had deliberated on over the past week, council Vice President John A. Burton '01 announced at last night's council meeting...
...minor amendments, which mostly deal with issues of grammar and clarity, are expected to pass, with the fate of an amendment which would change the way members are assigned to committees still unclear. Council members have a week to vote on the amendments...
...surely due to the strict laws that still govern letter writing. For all the talk of "netiquette" (which delights Miss Manners), e-mail has yet to succumb to the rule of a similar code: smiley faces and other vulgarities are allowed, and even the most stringent rules of grammar are regularly relaxed...
...When it comes to the rap, I go to the artist and I say, "Make it hot." So I don't even know. I don't correct the grammar...