Don't fuck with the English teacher.
Don't fuck with the English teacher.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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MajGenl.Meade
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Re: Don't fuck with the English teacher.
"I believe that my classmates will agree when I say this next statement" is problematic.
Surely, the writer is not 'saying' anything - he is 'writing'. I suppose he might be forecasting that should he 'say" the next statement, then his belief is that it would receive general agreement. However, he seems unlikely to be clever enough to reason in that manner.
Secondly, the 'agreement' that he believes will occur is not defined. He means of course that they will agree with the next statement but the sentence may equally imply that would busy themselves agreeing that fish is better than chalk for lunch while he is in the process of making the statement.
Clearly, he should have written something similar to: "I believe that my classmates would agree with the following statement". 'Will' is changed to 'would' since it is not clear that the statement either has been shared, is being shared or will be shared with said classmates.
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Maggie
Surely, the writer is not 'saying' anything - he is 'writing'. I suppose he might be forecasting that should he 'say" the next statement, then his belief is that it would receive general agreement. However, he seems unlikely to be clever enough to reason in that manner.
Secondly, the 'agreement' that he believes will occur is not defined. He means of course that they will agree with the next statement but the sentence may equally imply that would busy themselves agreeing that fish is better than chalk for lunch while he is in the process of making the statement.
Clearly, he should have written something similar to: "I believe that my classmates would agree with the following statement". 'Will' is changed to 'would' since it is not clear that the statement either has been shared, is being shared or will be shared with said classmates.
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Maggie
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Sue U
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Re: Don't fuck with the English teacher.
Not sure it would have helped in this case.Proofreading takes five minutes and keeps you from looking stupid.
GAH!