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Randy D

Do you remember those glorious days of cramming for college grammar exams? I loved them!


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Posted - May 1, 2019
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  • 44617
    No...I never crammed for any subject in college. I either knew it or I didn't. I was more successful than those who did.
      May 1, 2019 6:45 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I tried that once more in school this time around.  I am old now.  I cannot just do that anymore.  I thought I could.  

    LOL   I would read something, or hear it in class and it was GONE.  I would re-read it again and again.  AND THEN....three years later the light turned ON.  HAAA HAAA  I still got great grades and all but I WORKED LIKE HELL.  HELL I TELL YOU.  

    Go back to school for something you think is easy.  Like a different subject entirely but something you know nothing about.  Try it. LOL  You may be humbled. I am not saying you are not brilliant.  I love your mind, but it is patinaed now if you are like most of us.
      May 1, 2019 8:57 AM MDT
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  • 44617
    Maybe I should; school is free for those over 65. I can't imagine taking a class about something I am not interested in. I did have take a few of those, but I BSed my way through them.
      May 2, 2019 7:56 AM MDT
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  • 17596
    I never crammed for an English exam.  My English 101 and 102 prof had us do literature and poetry for both semesters.  He told us we should know grammar by now and if we didn't we would see it in our grade.  In reality he was the most fun professor I ever had. 
      May 1, 2019 8:54 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Me neither.  Don't you think you have to be very insecure in your grammar knowledge to have to study?  Bah humbug.
      May 1, 2019 8:55 AM MDT
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  • 17596
    It was drilled into us in elementary and high school.  I still have a grammar text book from when my kids were in high school in case I need to look up something.  It's even easier now with the internet.  I do agree that after about fifth grade spelling and grammar mistakes on papers in any subject should be reflected in grades.  Now you see both in internet text all the time.....even news outlets' articles are filled with mistakes. 
      May 1, 2019 9:00 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I was going to give you a smart-a$$ answer, but I have to say, I have seen what colleges teach for grammar these days and I AM DEEPLY HUMBLED.  When I was in school, it was easy. I never studied it.  It just came to me.  Like spelling and the rest.  

    But now they have those "tree things" to diagram with.  We didn't do those trees.  

    So, I would have to learn how.  And all the breakdowns of grammar, I cannot pinpoint the correct name for each word for every way it can be used in a sentence and be correct all the time.  

    No way.  But I know where to put a comma and a semi-colon and a hyphen and a tilde.  The tilde thing is easy.  Like the appendix, it is hardly ever used or necessary.  


      May 1, 2019 9:02 AM MDT
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  • 44617
    I am shocked that colleges need to teach grammar...wait, I forgot about the jocks.
      May 2, 2019 7:57 AM MDT
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  • 53509

      Have you heard the way some teachers and even college professors talk these days?  A variety of so-called "educated" and "professional" people have extremely poor grammar!  Grrrrrrrr.

      May 3, 2019 5:49 AM MDT
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  • 44617
    I have seen that, but not very often. Even a chemistry professor, straight off the boat from Germany, spoke English quite well. She would apologize for her grammar, but I reassured her.
      May 3, 2019 8:27 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    The tilde thing is easy. Like the appendix, it is hardly ever used or necessary.

    You may be the cause of Randy having a stroke with that sentence.
      May 2, 2019 8:24 AM MDT
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  • 53509

      The paramedics did all that they could.

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      May 3, 2019 5:46 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    Clever
      May 3, 2019 7:38 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    No I don't.  Never went to college.  I have a GED - one of the men who administered them in this state was my boyfriend. 
      May 2, 2019 7:59 AM MDT
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  • 44617
    Convenient.
      May 3, 2019 8:28 AM MDT
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