Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Justly, Because

   The topic at the Educational Conference was how to improve student writing.  One teacher stated she taught all her students never to begin a sentence with the word because.  She remembers her teacher saying it was wrong to do so, and that's what she tells her classes.  I really wish sometimes that I had a class to teach, because I feel some responsibility to the English language.  I long to straighten out her misunderstanding, but it's hard to do that outside a classroom.  I would explain this way:
         "Because you are ignorant of language usage"    That's not a sentence.
         "Because you are ignorant of language usage, you should not be teaching English."   That's a perfectly good sentence. 
    

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