A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. … - E. B. White

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With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies. ' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.

E. B. White

A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.

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