Word: grammars
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...chum, How did you acquire such an expansive vocabulary? -Joseph Gerard O'Brien, Newark, DelawareTeaching! It really is from teaching. And also I grew up in a household where my mother was constantly correcting my grammar, and still does. And I love, love, love, love the written word. I'll re-read books, I'll reread passages from books over and over and over, because I just love the way words look on the page. And I have to say as a teacher, I always wanted to raise the bar for my students. I wanted them to wonder and then...
...content of her pre-litigious messages is also dubious: She accused them of violating “anti-federal discrimination laws” under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion, or national origin. Putting aside the bad grammar of her e-mail, it is unclear what she meant by this, as she cites no specific incident in which such discrimination was evident. It’s true that Venkatesan’s students may not have liked her, but this was likely due to what they perceived as poor...
...screenwriter of “Bonnie and Clyde” and the beatified and Academy Award-winning writer-director of “Kramer vs. Kramer.” But rather than rehash his many successes, he and Maslin spent their 90 minutes together discussing the “grammar for films” he learned from the French New Wave masters François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. Everything about their conversation, from the topic to the manner, was full of deference and humility.“This may not be the truth for everyone...
...These verses have long served as texts for cultural education - a staple of calligraphers and students, who memorize them in order to learn classical Japanese grammar. When I was a college student studying in Kyoto, where almost all of the hundred poets lived and wrote, I tried to memorize a few of the poems myself. I had got as far as the third (in fact, I never got further) when I went to dinner at a teacher's house one night and discovered that the teacher's mother - a city social worker - was a Hyakunin Isshu fan. She humored...
...righteous person” who had taken to studying the Jewish faith—albeit in a “quirky” way. Meyers would study Jewish texts sporadically, according to his friends, as he closely examined the etymology of individual words, sentence structure, and grammar. Teegarden said she has organized a memorial project in the Hillel community, designed to let Hillel members learn religious texts “in the spirit of how Isaac learned.” “It can offer us all a little bit of comfort,” Teegarden said...