Commentüs on: Cuz Grammar Is Where It’s At http://ireadbannedbooks.net/2008/04/27/cuz-grammar-is-where-its-at/ Please don't hate me because of my superior intellect and sarcastic attitude. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:09:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Top Teacher http://ireadbannedbooks.net/2008/04/27/cuz-grammar-is-where-its-at/#comment-3612 Top Teacher Thu, 29 May 2008 17:25:22 +0000 http://ireadbannedbooks.wordpress.com/?p=1618#comment-3612 Hello Grammarians, I am trying to teach students the difference between prescriptive and descriptive grammar. Students will not accept the fact that a sentence can END with a preposition such as for, from, or which. Can you help to back this up with a few more examples- students claim Im using adverbs at the end- etc- arguing that "Tell me what the movie is about." is wrong! TopTeacher Palm Springs High School Hello Grammarians,

I am trying to teach students the difference between prescriptive and descriptive grammar. Students will not accept the fact that a sentence can END with a preposition such as for, from, or which.

Can you help to back this up with a few more examples- students claim Im using adverbs at the end- etc- arguing that “Tell me what the movie is about.” is wrong!

TopTeacher
Palm Springs High School

]]> By: Not Afraid To Use It http://ireadbannedbooks.net/2008/04/27/cuz-grammar-is-where-its-at/#comment-3421 Not Afraid To Use It Thu, 01 May 2008 01:42:17 +0000 http://ireadbannedbooks.wordpress.com/?p=1618#comment-3421 Ah man. I really wanted to hear that YOU were the one who used that on an airplane. I ought to know better than to use the grammar I do. Too easy to be lazy, I suppose. Ah man. I really wanted to hear that YOU were the one who used that on an airplane. I ought to know better than to use the grammar I do. Too easy to be lazy, I suppose.

]]> By: opengroveclaudia http://ireadbannedbooks.net/2008/04/27/cuz-grammar-is-where-its-at/#comment-3405 opengroveclaudia Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:25:11 +0000 http://ireadbannedbooks.wordpress.com/?p=1618#comment-3405 You mean: "where you at?" isn't correct grammar? You sure? ;) You mean: “where you at?” isn’t correct grammar? You sure? ;)

]]> By: Mrs. Chili http://ireadbannedbooks.net/2008/04/27/cuz-grammar-is-where-its-at/#comment-3404 Mrs. Chili Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:25:49 +0000 http://ireadbannedbooks.wordpress.com/?p=1618#comment-3404 That's a variation on my favorite English Teacher joke. A new guy's on the campus at Harvard, good and lost. He stops the first student he can find and says "excuse me, can you tell me where the library's at?" The student turns up his nose and says "Here at Harvard, we do not end our sentences in prepositions." "All right," our guy responds, "can you tell me where the library's at, asshole!" I don't like ending sentences in "at" (it just sounds too NASCAR to me) but I'm not as opposed to most other forms. Churchill was right - sometimes avoiding an ending preposition sounds worse than leaving it where it is. That’s a variation on my favorite English Teacher joke.

A new guy’s on the campus at Harvard, good and lost. He stops the first student he can find and says “excuse me, can you tell me where the library’s at?”

The student turns up his nose and says “Here at Harvard, we do not end our sentences in prepositions.”

“All right,” our guy responds, “can you tell me where the library’s at, asshole!”

I don’t like ending sentences in “at” (it just sounds too NASCAR to me) but I’m not as opposed to most other forms. Churchill was right - sometimes avoiding an ending preposition sounds worse than leaving it where it is.

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