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Originally Posted by 4691mls
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.
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One of my college teachers was married to a public high school teacher who had a PhD in literature. But she never got to teach literature because her high school students came to class without understanding basic grammar. So she felt it was her duty to teach them grammar instead of literature because they would need it. I would imagine that would have been very frustrating to her.