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    Standards have been going downhill since the 1960s." He added: "Role models like sports stars tend to speak very badly and young people pick this up. There is a youth culture to speak badly." "Pupils are not marked down because of bad grammar but they should be. Full Article at Edinburgh Daily News
    Role models like sports stars tend to speak very badly and young people pick this up. There is a youth culture to speak badly.
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 31 months ago
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  1. 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.
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 31 months ago
  2. 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.
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 31 months ago
  3. It initiats a undisired non-specific response in mamammals.
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 31 months ago
  4. 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.
    SOURCE: Edinburgh Daily News 31 months ago

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