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Originally Posted by sassanik
Sorry I couldn't resist.
I managed to get through regular public school and a university with an appalling lack of understanding of english grammar. Which really hit me, and a large number of students in a class at the University when a ESL GTF graded our papers down severely for our horrid grammar. It was really depressing.
Amy
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Amy,
I'm the moderator of a message board for students studying Latin with the Open University - a "distance learning" university here in the UK. Year upon year, the biggest problem we see is people struggling with Latin due to a lack of knowledge of
English grammar. It's very difficult to learn a foreign language if you don't understand the grammar of your own language, and even worse if you aren't equipped with the basic vocabulary to discuss language - we get people who literally don't know what a "noun" or a "verb" are, let alone the more esoteric grammatical constructs.