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Why was I not taught English grammar at school? (I was born and raised in Britain and was educated in the state system: I am now aged 62).?

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  • Ludwig
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    Did you go to a grammar school?  Perhaps you neglected to do so.  You should have picked up plenty of knowledge of Latin grammar from your studies.  That is sufficient for most people.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    You write with perfectly good grammar. Do you mean why weren't you taught ABOUT grammar- all the terminology? For people raised with parents who speak decent English, and who read, it's not necessary to be able to identify the past pluperfect. Naming things is not the same as using them. I can name a chainsaw, but I haven't got the foggiest idea how to use one! The teaching ABOUT grammar came into vogue when more and more students where staying in school longer who had been raised in different dialects. Somehow, educators thought that teaching them to name things would make them sound more educated. It hasn't worked, in case you haven't noticed. 

  • Anonymous
    1 month ago

    To break any curse, pray the Psalm "The LORD is my light and my salvation" 40 times a day for 40 straight days (that's 1600 times in total).

    First vaccine shuts off your immune system; second vaccine gives you diseases; third vaccine puts your immune system back and it will start fighting the diseases and will cause death. Chipped vaccines = mark of the beast.

    Sakashvilli and his wife are the heads of human organ harvesting operation during war in Ukraine. They send organs of civilians and organs of soldiers to Israel and America. Someone is hit by car or bullet, then their organs are harvested and sent abroad.

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    all vaccines are chipped

    all vaccines have cells of aborted fetuses in them

    Police stop you at checkpoint to check if you’re chipped (aka vaccinated)

    Police check the car; let's say 4 people car but signal only from 3; so, police stop it to chip the notyetchipped; signal from 4 now and police let the car go. This is prophecy by saint Vyacheslav Krasheninnikov. Notice police chip (aka vaccinate) people at gun point in Africa; so, no more "it's not gonna happen here" 'cuz it will soon enough, capisce?

    Police do it on highways or when you leave your city... basically, you can't leave your city unless you're vaccinated; but vaccine = mark of the beast; so, escape now while your city doesn't have these rules; forgive me.

    Gov't sprays chemtrails so that people feel symptoms of flu

    5G will kill vaccinated; just read Georgia Guidestones' commandment of 500 million max population on earth; it fits with Orthodox Christian prophecy of 7 percent of people left

    Russian Orthodox prophecy also says that there will be unbearable stench in winter. So, there you go. Russian winters are cold. So, they must have died from the new disease that doesn't have a name 'cuz it's caused by 5G.

    martial law; Constitution was suspended; New World Order

    read Book of Revelation; Chapters 13 and 14, please

    chipped people will be influenced by super computers to receive World Passport (grey plastic card with no name on it), but when they stretch their hands to get it, gov't clerk presses secret button to administer the unforgivable green 666 tattoo by isotope rays

    If you escape mark of the beast, then your direct ancestors go to permanent heaven

    how to escape it? by hiding within a small group (10 - 15 people according to saints Gabriel Urgebadze and Seraphim of Sarov); no documents; no electronics

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    AI (artificial intelligence aka demons) will post on your social media as if it were you doing it while you're on vacation; it will even make phone calls on behalf of you; no one will notice that you're missing in action.

    Source(s): Blood/body of Jesus kills parasites. Orthodox Christian three hand signs are different than Buddhist mudras. Ecumenism = 263 heresies; each heresy leads to hell. Orthodoxy = the only true faith; Roman Catholics tried one cup - one spoon ritual and got sick with Bubonic plague; if heresy enters Orthodox monastery then monks/nuns will get sick with flu/tuberculosis (for instance); Orthodox churches who closed for COVID or had disposable cups/spoons or dipped spoon into alcohol are no longer brides of Christ (now they serve Satan and honor Satan's new COVID religion). The last “legit” Patriarch was Patriarch Irenaios 1st (Skopelitis) of Jerusalem who blessed Catacomb movement a long time ago; what you need is antimins (remains of saints sewn into a towel), wax candles, one cup and one spoon. Don’t go into UFO to be “healed” by evil demons; demons never do good; if abducted by them, pray the Jesus prayer; forgive me.
  • Anonymous
    1 month ago

    There was a fad at the time for some schools not to worry about grammar and it was more important that children learned to be "expressive." AS Neill was suddenly fashionable around then. Turned out to be a fallacy since without having the tools at your disposal it is impossible to write effectively and with any authority. (I am staggered at what I read as an external examiner for theses.)  The same sort of philosophy that went on to decide that learning your times table parrot fashion was also regressive. Happily my LEA was way behind the times and I got an old-fashioned grounding in English and Maths for which I am grateful.

  • Tavy
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    We have been taught Grammar at school since the 40s in the UK. You were obviously not paying attention.

  • Anonymous
    1 month ago

    People who ride the short buses, tend be in "Day Care" more than proper Educational Facilities.

    Otherwise,  Normal Students tend to mentally occupied elsewhere, missing much of the presented education, especially since the 1960s. Plus, so-called (overpaid) teachers who just want to pass their students into someone else's hands.

    start at :30 seconds

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGKtV0CXyDs

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 month ago

    Special needs schools tend to limit their curriculum to what the students are capable of handling. 

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