Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When I arrived in this country I knew very little grammar. So I spent the three months of the fall of '49 learning English at Syracuse University. And when I came to Flether, I found that our methods of teaching are much different. I can read well now but I still have difficulty speaking to and understanding people...
...satire hauled up from the deep old Orwell. Here, in a prison barracks in suburban New York, on a black night somewhere this side of 1984, sits a U.S. liberal jailed by the Russian conquerors, and remembers how indifferent she was to a poor, underfed little girl back in grammar school ; the girl has grown up to be Comrade Hilda Kantrowitz, the public prosecutor...
Edward H. Addelson '39, 10G, supervisor for the Study Counsel Bureau, will give the course. He has written a special 60-page text-book for the course called "A Short Review of English Grammar...
...offering the course for these students," William G. Perry, Director of the Bureau said, "because many were never taught the fundamentals of formal grammar at school. This makes it very difficult for them in language courses. For instance, they may not even know the difference between a noun and an adjective...
Having trouble with your French? Or is it your English? In either case the Bureau of Study Counsel offers a cure. Beginning December 3rd, it will introduce a ten-day experimental course in English formal grammar for students in elementary foreign language courses...