In article <3961c060@news.povray.org>, "Rick" <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote:

> Hey with my English, I need all the help I can get! (and I'm a native one
> language man myself!).
> 
> What sickens me is the British English education system is so dire, even
> most of its own citizens cannot grasp the language correctly.
> 
> I was on the dyslexic side at school, and for English ended up being 
> dumped to the bottom class, instead of receiving the extra help I 
> needed. I had an expected English GCSE grade of 'G', while for other 
> subjects such as math and science I was in the top sets, looking 
> toward straight A's.

I know how you feel...I barely passed Grammar II this year, and may have 
to take the second semester again next year. My other subjects, while 
not straight A's, were much better. I'm not dyslexic, I just can't 
identify sentence parts. It's like I categorize words differently from 
the person who wrote the grammar book(which seems to be written by 
someone obsessed with finding the most complex way in which to explain 
things). Many of the constructions of English seem clumsy and unnatural 
to me, though because it is the only language I know, I can't compare 
with others.
Not surprisingly, when I took the SAT(an ability test), language came 
out behind everything else.

And if you think the British system is bad, look at some of the stuff 
some Americans write. And most of them don't even care that people can 
barely understand them.(If I make a spelling mistake, please point it 
out. If I make a grammar mistake, also point it out, but I will probably 
forget it 5 minutes after I read it.)

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