From episode four of the podcast The Dream: “Robert and him struck up a friendship.” And twelve seconds later: “Him and Robert also had the idea.” And as a bonus, just thirty seconds away, a left dislocation: ”So William Penn Patrick, he ran for governor.”
When Elaine and I heard “Robert and him” this morning, on a walk, each of us on a device, her and me cried out in dismay.
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My grade three teacher spent all of 30 or 40 minutes "learning" us the difference between he/she and I & he/she and me (and their variants). This was followed by supplementary exercises over the next several days.
ReplyDeleteI believe that grade three teachers haven't done that in the last 25 or 30 years or so.
In retrospect, I’m grateful for the instruction in grammar I received in elementary school and high school. Tedious, as rote learning probably always is. But rote learning can make it possible to go on to more interesting things.
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