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Originally Posted by sjfan
His profile says he's in the US (Texas), in the US a public school what the British would call a state school
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Yes, in the US, a public school is publicly funded (tax/government dollars) and is open to the public (generally, any student in the geographic area the school covers can attend). I've always wonder why the term "public" is applied to schools in Britain that we would call "private" in the US. Maybe one of the Brits on here can explain it?
I do know what nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are but I've long forgotten most of the other English grammar terms I once knew. Most of the grammar education I had was in about 6th or 7th grade. I had one teacher in high school who cared about grammar and tried to teach it, but the English classes in my low-quality public high school were mostly about reading and vocabulary.