Do teachers correct students grammar in spoken or written situations anymore? (career, graders)
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I am not a teacher but it seems to me that the first person is being mangled ever more frequently in ordinary speech, particularly the use of 'myself' in utterly ear-jarring language.
I hear cringe worthy statements like 'Give the book to the librarian or myself'.. or 'Myself and my boyfriend went to Paris last month'... 'They told my mom and I to leave'.. and it goes on ad nauseam!
What happened to 'ME'?
Is correct speech no longer relevant in teaching today?
Are things so bad that grammar has fallen by the wayside?
My ears hurt.
I am not a teacher but it seems to me that the first person is being mangled ever more frequently in ordinary speech, particularly the use of 'myself' in utterly ear-jarring language.
I hear cringe worthy statements like 'Give the book to the librarian or myself'.. or 'Myself and my boyfriend went to Paris last month'... 'They told my mom and I to leave'.. and it goes on ad nauseam!
What happened to 'ME'?
Is correct speech no longer relevant in teaching today?
Are things so bad that grammar has fallen by the wayside?
My ears hurt.
Do teachers correct students' grammar in spoken or written situations anymore?
You need to place an apostrophe after "students" since you are showing possession and referencing more than one student.
Yes. I do work with my third graders to improve grammar.
I just remember school librarian Martha Hanson (back in the 1960s) saying one million times, "Can means do you have the ability, may means do you have permission".
Yes, I correct both written and spoken work and even out-of-class conversations.
Depending on the school population you have to be careful, though.
I was called on the carpet early in my career for correcting spelling and word usage on an essay that was submitted in non-standard English.
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