Posted on 11/28/2004 5:50:10 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
Ping away, stockpirate can handle the reading!!!!
[singing] "Yo, ho, yo, ho, the pirate's life's for me..."
YOu got it! :-)
You're welcome, SunkenCiv.
"On the outline map provided, mark the position of Carlisle, Canterbury, Plymouth, Hull, Gloucester, Swansea, Southampton, Worcester, Leeds, Leicester and Norwich; Morecambe Bay, The Wash, Solent, Menai Straits and Lyme Bay; St Bees Head, The Naze, Lizard Point; the rivers Trent and Severn; Whernside, the North Downs, and Plinlimmon; and state on a separate paper what the towns named above are noted for."
Well . . . except at COld Harbor.
The way it used to be WHERE?Late Victorian England.
"5. Where are Omdurman, Wai-Hei-Wai, Crete, Santiago, and West Key, and what are they noted for?"
I think they're all living in Los Angeles now, and last I heard bond was set at $25,000 each.
Wow. I guess I'm just glad I was one of the last to be taught reading with phonics (in the early 70's).
As a private and home educating mother, this fascinates me. My 11yo will love reading this! He thinks HE has work...
>>Where are silver, platinum, tin, wool, wheat, palm oil, >>furs and cacao got from?
>Obviously the person who came up with this question failed >the grammar test.
How is it that such an idea has got abroad? Actually, you're judging 19th and even 18th century standards of grammer by our modern dumbed-down standards. Using ``...got from'' is actually proper English, for writings preceding circa 1950. By example you can see grammer like this used extensively in old writings like http://www.thomaspaine.org/Archives/AOR2.html Mr. paine being a prolific writer during and after the American Revolutionary war, his phamplet http://www.thomaspaine.org/Archives/commonsense.html provoked the war, and it uses such grammer. Writings of the other Founding Fathers are similar, as are many of the writings contained in collections like ``The Havard Classics'', of which are far too numerous to quote here. It's curious to note that these sort of writings were mandantory before 1900, but ignored by `educators' today. Even old movies regularly depicted the well-to-do using such grammer.
Perhaps we don't speak that way today, but who are we, products of a dumbed-down educational system, to judge the grammer of those who spoke and wrote far better than anyone now is capable of? We have so much too learn from people who lived prior to 1900, so perhaps we should spend more time learning proper English and many other things from them, and less critising their grammer of yesteryear.
Interesting comments about grammar.
My favorite books are those by William Law, Charles Finney, Andrew Murray, Elizabeth Prentiss, and other early Christian writers from the 1600's through the 1800's.
Just even their thought processes and ways of explanation are so rich. In fact, it took me a while before I could really get in the flow of Charles Finney's thinking. But once I did, it's been a delight to read.
The best words I can use to describe those early writers are depth and clarity. Such sound thinking! (I'm hoping it will rub off on me. I need it....)
Actually, I was commenting on the use of 'from' as a dangling participle. Nineteenth-century grammarians discouraged the use of prepositions at the ends of sentences as much as modern grammarians do today.
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