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Show TEACH GRAMMAR i Beaver County school teachers are j trying to discovevr a method of in-I in-I duefng their pupils to use correct English on the street and in their homes. The inference is that in the school rooms the rules of grammar ar complied with, but that when the j youngsters are freed from the guU-; guU-; ing influence of the pedagogues they ' s.lip back into a less formal mode of ! conversation. , Although the teachers have expressed expres-sed concern at the ruthless liberties ' t:iken with the English language by the younger generation, The News is I of the opinion that as a whole boys j and girls of today use English of a higher type than their predecessors of twenty years ago. Not so long ago the conversation of a large part of : the population would have thrown a ! grammarian into hysterics. Xowa- j clays a man or woman or a child who does not use fairly correct Eng-; lish finds himself in an embarrasing situation. His deficiency is painfully evident, for most persons are aware of his shortcomings. It is an almost impossible task to J '.each a child to speak correctly when his parents" in the family circle vio--into ail the rules of syntax. But a! great step toward correct English! will have been taken when school children are taught grammar so that ' they reaily know what it means. The I j writer frequently comes in contact ' with young people who have a desire to write. Most of them, he discovers, have only the vaguest ideas of grammar. gram-mar. Ask them to analyze the structure struc-ture of a sentence and they gaze at you in amazement. When boys and girls understand English grammar and know when they are violating ac cepted rules their language will automatically auto-matically adjust itself to the dictums of good usage. I A |