What is the language "British"?
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Tue Aug 29 21:22:48 UTC 2006
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:16:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 13:52, Jack Gates wrote:
>
> Yes, I assume you are referring to the 1895 Salenas KS 8th grade
> final test thats floating around on the net?
I haven't seen that.
Uncle Milty and Rose Friedman reprinted a March, 1911 Indiana High
School entrance exam on page 149 of their Tyranny of the Status Quo
(1983). Imagine the concept of a high school entrance exam, for one
thing and consider the implicit social policy thereof.
I shan't reprint the whole thing, but it did call on the candidate to
write a sentence with its verb in the active voice, and then re-write
it with the passive voice. I recently taught a class on technical
writing at a local community college. I had to explain to them what
passive voice was and why one should avoid it, and some of them never
got it. I have not taught there since.
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