Mike,
My fast reaction to all of those is "B". When I see that sort of thing
in student writing, my immediate impression is not that there is a
grammar problem, but rather that the writer needs an active command of a
wider range of adjectives, or has been exposed to too much advertising
or bureaucratic language. I think doublespeak and its ilk constitute a
far worse problem than do most "grammatical errors," however, so my
scale would run at right angles to yours. That said, the whole point of
your scale is probably to let you investigate grammaticality judgments,
and I realize it's silly to criticize Fahrenheit for not primarily
indexing humidity.
Bill Spruiell
Dept. of English
Central Michigan University
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Subject: aware + N
Dear Grammarians,
Could you lend me your grammaticality judgment on the following
sentences?
If a student in one of your classes used "aware" as an attributive
modifier of nouns, how would you advise the student? Please use one the
following ratings for each of the sentences below:
A - perfectly acceptable
B - grammatically acceptable but not stylistically optimal
C - not grammatically acceptable
1. He was a very aware person, and he got more aware as he got older.
2. Knowledgeable and aware nurses can participate in institutional
infection control programs.
3. Music, perhaps more than any other art, appealed directly to the
aware
mind, and stirred special emotions in it.
4. Another prerequisite for the success of this comprehensive model is
an
educationally aware administration.
If you could let me know your answers by noon tomorrow (Friday) I would
be
grateful. Thanks, Mike
Mike Medley
Eastern Mennonite University
540-432-4051 [log in to unmask]
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