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...think it?s brought a new way to learn the game to fans and to players. They?re the same people. When you think that we?ve been doing this for 20 years and guys that are playing now in the NFL, they started playing Madden in grammar school, and then they played in high school, then they played in college, and now they play in the NFL and they?re part of the game...
...mainly second-language students and students who lost their way in school," Ryan says. "They wanted something that I could help them get: an understanding of the basic elements of grammar, pronouns, those pesky apostrophes. The goal was to write an effective paragraph that was coherent and well supported. We aspired to the semicolon, but that rarely happened...
...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...