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EFL4Life
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| piglet44 wrote: |
| Asking EFL4Life why he/she would be concerned about a grammar test... |
piglet,
re-read my post/question.
I never stated I was concerned. |
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EFL4Life
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| TRH wrote: |
Perhaps efl4life is questioning whether a grammar test is indicative of who makes the best teacher.
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No, I was not questioning that.
I asked a "yes" or "no" question.
There are 3 possible answers: yes, no, I don't know. |
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TRH
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 12:52 am Post subject: |
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Fair enough  |
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I'm With Stupid
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:32 am Post subject: |
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| piglet44 wrote: |
| Why would that be a bad thing if you purport to be a teacher of Eng. Lang? |
It depends who wrote the grammar test. Have you seen some of the tests the students come into class with from their public schools? |
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I'm With Stupid
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| TRH wrote: |
Perhaps efl4life is questioning whether a grammar test is indicative of who makes the best teacher.
There are twelve or thirteen tenses in English, depending on whether you consider the "going to" construct a distinct tense from the "will" of the simple future. I wonder how many reading this forum can name all of them and give examples right off the top of their heads. I know that I can't. The reason is that we routinely use only five of them. I read once that 60% of the verbs in written English are simple past. When was the last time you used the future perfect continuous? |
Strictly speaking there are 2 tenses in English: present and past. Everything else is aspects or modals.
With the extremely rare grammatical forms, there is a good argument to ignore them completely. There are far higher frequency items that students would probably get more use out of practicing. |
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TRH
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 7:44 am Post subject: |
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| I'm With Stupid wrote: |
| With the extremely rare grammatical forms, there is a good argument to ignore them completely. There are far higher frequency items that students would probably get more use out of practicing. |
Great minds think alike.  |
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