A LESSON IN GRAMMAR.
Children —and some who are not children —have the habit of saying “have wrote” and “have went.” All attempts to break the habit prove futile. To break up the habit in a pupil, a teacher imposed the sentence of staying after school and writing “I have written” one hundred times. The task over, and the teacher absent, the boy wrote, “I have wrote I ‘have written’ a hundred times, and I have went home.”
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1094, 23 February 1911, Page 22
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78A LESSON IN GRAMMAR. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1094, 23 February 1911, Page 22
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