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> So my question stands:  is this degree of grammatical innocence now
> normal among composition and literature teachers?  Or have I just
> happened on an unusual group?
>
> Kathleen Ward
>

This is a hard question to answer, but I think a lot of us would intuit
that this kind of ignorance is common among lit and comp teachers.
Finding out exactly how common would take some research ... how could we
do it diplomatically??

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