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The author thinks that students' language deficits should be blamed on schools because the schools never teach grammar.
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The schools fail to set high standards of English proficiency because the younger teachers don't want to be tedious oddities in eyes of students.
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The son feels curious about his father's grammar lesson because his father handles different parts of speech in a sentence and discussed their specific grammatical functions delicately.
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The author uses "road map" and "car" to describe grammar and vocabulary.
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Both the interjection "whoa!" in paragraph 4 and paragraph 17 are used in the same situations and with the same feelings.
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There are many different stories about the downturn in the proper use of English. ____ students should be able to distinguish。
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students should be able to distinguish between their / there / they're or the ____ difference between complimentary and complementary.
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They unfairly bear the bulk of the criticism for these knowledge ____ because there is a sense that they should know better.
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Students are not dumb, but they are being misled ____ they look and listen.
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For example, signs in grocery stores point them to the stationary, even though the actual stationery items - pads, albums and notebooks - are not ____ down.
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Friends and loved ones often proclaim they've just ate when, in fact, they've just eaten. ____, it doesn't make any sense to criticize our students.
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Blame for the scandal of this language deficit should be thrust upon our schools, ____ should be setting high standards of English language proficiency.
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Instead, they only teach a little grammar and even less advanced vocabulary. ____, the younger teachers themselves evidently have little knowledge of these vital structures of language.
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the younger teachers themselves evidently have little knowledge of these vital structures of language because they also went without ____ to them.
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Schools fail to adequately teach the essential framework of language, accurate grammar and proper vocabulary, ____ they should take the responsibility of pushing the young onto the path of competent communication.
