What is the language "British"?

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 17:22, Charles Curley wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:16:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 13:52, Jack Gates wrote:
>>
>>
>> Yes, I assume you are referring to the 1895 Salenas KS 8th grade
>> final test thats floating around on the net?
>
>I haven't seen that.
>
>Uncle Milty and Rose Friedman reprinted a March, 1911 Indiana High
>School entrance exam on page 149 of their Tyranny of the Status Quo
>(1983). Imagine the concept of a high school entrance exam, for one
>thing and consider the implicit social policy thereof.
>
>I shan't reprint the whole thing, but it did call on the candidate to
>write a sentence with its verb in the active voice, and then re-write
>it with the passive voice. I recently taught a class on technical
>writing at a local community college. I had to explain to them what
>passive voice was and why one should avoid it, and some of them never
>got it. I have not taught there since.

Thats not your fault Charles.  That should have been part of the language 
they got in the 5th grade IIRC.

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