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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a pretty successful adult and I would have to google the 8 parts of speech.  I don't have a job that would require that at all.  I bet there are very few jobs that would require that.  Why is that something you are worried about?  I get wanting to make sure my kid can write well, but I would argue you can learn to write well without knowing exactly what each part is called. [/quote]

Don't you think learning grammar (and that is pretty basic grammar) helps you to write well/better? I get that you don't know now, but I bet at one point in your life you learned it and incorporated that knowledge into your writing. [/quote]

My experience as a high school teacher is that the kids coming from environments that emphasize grammar in elementary are the reluctant writers.  They often have beautiful handwriting, but their sentences are short, because they're afraid to take a risk on words that they can't spell or sentence structures they don't remember how to use.  The kids coming from public are much more fluent, their writing is better organized, and they have better voice.  Then in middle school, they learn the parts of speech easily in the first year of foreign language, and editing becomes a focus in English. They enter high school as better writers.  [/quote]

Well, my experience as a college professor is that almost all the students are terrible writers, but that "fluent" ones fill more pages and are harder to understand.  [/quote]

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