THEY are supposed to be some of the brightest students in Britain yet they cannot spell the most basic of words, let alone string a coherent sentence together. Full Article at Edinburgh Daily News
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A common error is misuse of the apostrophe - so many put an apostrophe in the possessive its. Perhaps some people feel the balance has gone too far towards encouraging creative writing [in schools] over the rigours of spelling and grammar.
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Young people today are far more able, articulate and prepared to challenge and question orthodoxy, rather than bow to authority as they were years ago, which is to be welcomed.
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Role models like sports stars tend to speak very badly and young people pick this up. There is a youth culture to speak badly.
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It initiats a undisired non-specific response in mamammals.
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There is not enough emphasis on teaching children how to speak and write properly. The public schools are the only ones that are still pretty good at this. Standards have been going downhill since the 1960s.
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I did my A-levels in theatre arts, media studies and English literature, and I really wanted to go to drama school, but I was told that they preferred it if you had done something first, so when I came across this course I decided to apply for it.
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Bursaries towards the cost of degrees which are the most useful to the economy could kick-start thousands of young people into reconsidering a future in science.
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It was a rather difficult request
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It's important we draw attention to the issue.
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