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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Fit rules to examples/fit examples to rules?
Do you agree with this?
"Teachers need to face the question of what they are going to do with examples which they know to be correct English, but which do not fit the rules that they know. The answer must be, that if you know a rule and you know an example that does not fit, you do not discard the example, you discard the rule."
Michael Lewis, in The English Verb.
"Teachers need to face the question of what they are going to do with examples which they know to be correct English, but which do not fit the rules that they know. The answer must be, that if you know a rule and you know an example that does not fit, you do not discard the example, you discard the rule."
Michael Lewis, in The English Verb.
Top answer
If the rule applies 99% of the time then it seems a bit silly to discard it. Better to have a rule with occasional exceptions, I would have thought.
- If the rule applies 99% of the time then it seems a bit silly to discard it.
- Better to have a rule with occasional exceptions, I would have thought.
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If the rule applies 99% of the time then it seems a bit silly to discard it. Better to have a rule with occasional exceptions, I would have thought.
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