It's inevitable that text messaging will affect the way that students write in class. I've seen significant deterioration of writing skills in the past three or four years, and one particular grammatical detail has especially paid the price: the possessive apostrophe.
Oh, sweet little apostrophe that demonstrates what belongs to them, why have they forsaken you? Why must they write that Huck Finns father is an alcoholic and Hester Prynnes letter is a terrible burden? Don't they realize that might look plural, and therefore might create confusion?
I begin my campaign today: SAVE THE POSSESSIVE APOSTROPHE!!! It has only brought clarity to our lives and allowed us to claim things as our own. Help our young people to know its importance.
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1 comment:
I agree that online correspondence worsens student writing. In order not to worsen your level, you really need to practice writing papers more often. For example, it is worth reducing the purchase of homework from special professional services that provide both research papers and other types of assignments that students need. If a student reduces the number of homework purchases from professional services 🖌, then the student will increase the number of practical homework cases for writing homework on his own and thereby slow down his process of worsening writing papers.
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