Re: David Pogue's column - New York Time

[Lori Olcott <lori_olcott -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

We may whine and fuss about grammar rules in middle school, but knowledge
of the structure behind a language can be very useful.  When I was working
as an editor for ESL education companies in Korea, my recommendations
carried a lot more weight than most of my fellows because I knew what a
gerund was.  But I still occasionally had to fall back on, "We just don't
say it that way."  ;)

Cheers!
Lori

> Sometimes the effort to learn a second language gives you a deeper 
> understanding of the grammar and mechanics. For example, two ladies who 
> were in my TW graduate program were both ESL speakers/writers, yet they 
> could recite and explain grammatical rules that many native speakers 
> had never even heard of!



	
		
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