To him I am a tedious oddity : a father he is obliged to listen to and a man absorbed in the rules of grammar which my son seems allergic to . 2 I think I got serious about this only recently when I ran into one of my former students fresh from an excursion to Europe How was it I asked full of earnest anticipation 3 She nodded three or four times searched the heavens for the right words and then exclaimed It was like whoal 4 And that was it . The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture were captured in a condensed non - statement . My student s whoal was exceeded only by my head - shaking distress 5 There are many different stories about the downturn in the proper use of English . Surely students should be able to distinguish between their / there / they re or the distinctive differenceon complimentary 1 . Why does the son think that his father is a tedious oddity

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1 An impressive English lesson 1 If I am the only parent who still corrects his child s English then perhaps my son is right . To him I am a tedious oddity : a father he is obliged to listen to and a man absorbed in the rules of grammar which my son seems allergic to . 

2 I think I got serious about this only recently when I ran into one of my former students fresh from an excursion to Europe How was it I asked full of earnest anticipation 

3 She nodded three or four times searched the heavens for the right words and then exclaimed It was like whoal 

4 And that was it . The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture were captured in a condensed non - statement . My student s whoal was exceeded only by my head - shaking distress

 5 There are many different stories about the downturn in the proper use of English . Surely students should be able to distinguish between their / there / they re or the distinctive differenceon complimentary 

1 . Why does the son think that his father is a tedious oddity