SCHOOLS: English grammar ‘obsolete and irrelevant’*

It is an increasing rarity these days to find a young person who can string a sentence together grammatically, reports Kevin Donnelly.The British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill is considered one of the 20th century’s greatest political orators. An important reason why Churchill was able to communicate so effectively was because, when at school, he was taught how to write.As he observed in his autobiography: “I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, …

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