i often hear my students speak statements as though they are asking questions... their voices raise at the end of the sentences... every now and then i hear my oldest son do this—one of his friends does this constantly... so i ask him, “are you asking me a question?” i do not let him speak this way... i am often telling one of my students in my Speech and Oral Presentations class to speak “statements.” he is improving...
I struggle trying to understand emails and memos from supposedly educated colleagues. They are littered with sentence fragments and thought fragments.
I often return the document with the note “The words are almost all English, but the sentences are not.”