PRESENT DAY ENGLISH
Sir, —I do not know who is responsible for the wording of the instructions tq pupils of Standard 1 and Standard 2, printed in your issue of February 7, but it is little use discussing the poor standard reached in spelling and English to-day, when such a sentence is sent out by any educational authority. Not content with one insertion, its author has written it for each standard: ‘‘Read your sentence carefully for the day and then print it.” If this means anything, it means that the child is to spend the day in reading the sentence. I do not know how any person, with even a very slight claim to education, could write such a sentence without noticing the faulty construction. —I am, etc., Ex-teacher.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26692, 11 February 1948, Page 2
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