[lunarbicep]

AMEN !!
If I recall correctly; he would use samples taken from newspapers and show the various errors. These were articles 20 - 25 years ago assumably involving educated writers and seasoned editorial staff. Personally, I can not imagine any great improvements within the English teaching department since that time. If anything his evidence supply must now seem infinite. (including my contribution here)

I do agree with you completely. We do need to find and share his work here. I am certain it would be well received.

[wildbill]

I teach English in college on occasion and can testify that the level of teaching in high school is terrible. Do you know that for years, the newest 'thing' in English departments was to ignore grammar in favor of 'letting the poor dears express themselves."

And the Houston Chronicle editorial pages often have errors that would have been cause for firing prior to the wave of touchy-feely teaching that supplanted grammar.