You sent this back to me without comment. It reflects much of what's wrong with 
<many> most grammar texts. Much of grammar text content is mindless, careless 
repetition of things that don't make sense, as this one demonstrates. There's a 
lot of plagiarism in the grammar trade. One grammar text author told me what he 
wrote had to be right because he copied it from another text. I believe him 
because he lifted things from me, word for word -- things he clearly 
doesn't understand but used anyway.
  
Some Common Irregular Verbs, page 37.
 
Past                    begin    choose    drink    eat       grow    hide
Present               began   chose     drank   ate       grew     hid
Past Participle      begun   chosen   drunk   eaten    grown   hidden
 
There's a little something the matter with them, don't you think? Look carefully 
or you'll miss it.
 
There's a LOT the matter with them and you did miss it.

Is it any wonder kids hate grammar when so much of it either doesn't make sense, 
like what you see above, or is presented in a way that is unnecessarily 
convoluted and complicated, e.g, Huddleston, Wardhaugh, et al?
 
.brad.05dec10.


      

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