Common Errors in Speaking and Writing and How to Avoid Them A Series of Exercises, with Notes, Cautions and Suggestion; For the Use of Teachers, Pupils and Private Students (Classic Reprint)
by H. I. Strang
Common Errors in Speaking and Writing and How to Avoid Them A Series of Exercises, with Notes, Cautions and Suggestion; For the Use of Teachers, Pupils and Private Students (Classic Reprint)
by H. I. Strang
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IN laying before my fellow-teachers this collection of Exercises in English, for Criticism and Correction, it may not be amiss for me to say a few words in regard to its origin and its object. I had not been long engaged in high-school work before I discovered that in many cases pupils who had a ready command of grammatical rules and definitions, and who were fairly proficient in analysis and parsing, were, yet, seemingly unable to detect common and undoubted errors in sentences in every  day use. Further experience showed me that even after they had learned to notice and correct mistakes in sentences given them for that purpose, many of them would continue to make the same or similar mistakes in their ordinary speaking and writing. I was led to conclude, therefore, that, accustomed as the majority of our pupils are from childhood to hearing incorrect forms of speech used by those around them, special and systematic drill is necessary to teach them to notice and guard against these wrong forms; and that this drill should be oral as well as written, in order that both the ear and the eye may be enlisted in the cause of good English, and trained to assist the student.
IN laying before my fellow-teachers this collection of Exercises in English, for Criticism and Correction, it may not be amiss for me to say a few words in regard to its origin and its object. I had not been long engaged in high-school work before I discovered that in many cases pupils who had a ready command of grammatical rules and definitions, and who were fairly proficient in analysis and parsing, were, yet, seemingly unable to detect common and undoubted errors in sentences in every  day use. Further experience showed me that even after they had learned to notice and correct mistakes in sentences given them for that purpose, many of them would continue to make the same or similar mistakes in their ordinary speaking and writing. I was led to conclude, therefore, that, accustomed as the majority of our pupils are from childhood to hearing incorrect forms of speech used by those around them, special and systematic drill is necessary to teach them to notice and guard against these wrong forms; and that this drill should be oral as well as written, in order that both the ear and the eye may be enlisted in the cause of good English, and trained to assist the student.
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