A Clue! (was LOON correction)

[David <dfrankiswork@netscape.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "ssk7882 <skelkins at a...>" 
<skelkins at a...> wrote:

(Dodgy grammar quote from Jo snipped)

> You know, I once had an English teacher who used to pick out 
> sentences like the above whenever they would appear in my essays 
and 
> then demand that I explain to the entire class precisely *why* 
they 
> were grammatically problematic?
> 
> Sadistic man, he was.  

Oh, yes, I made my teachers suffer.  If they made a maths mistake I 
would never say, That bit's wrong.  For one thing, it might not be.  
I would just pick up the conclusion and say that I didn't quite 
understand how that chain of reasoning worked, and then just let 
them squirm.
 
However, if JKR *is* reading the list, it's possible that she would 
find being called to explain something that is merely 
*grammatically* problematic something of a relief.  ;->

David