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Prepositions, I believe, can be quite annoying. I wish I had learnt that song when I was learning the rules on its usage. That would have made things a lot easier when I was ten.

Honestly, that's the way I am, too. In elementary school, there wasn't all that much emphasis on grammar in my literature classes and I'm seriously paying for it now in my English A.P. class.

Everyday, I hear it at least one time:

"What's never going to be found in a prepositional phrase!?"

Gah. neutral

Wow! I suddenly have faith in the human race! There are kids who actually care! Our gene pool isn't totally bunk!

Then again, I shouldn't talk. I'm barely sixteen. cool But in any case, I shake every one of your hands!

But yes, and the news is that it doesn't get any better. I've been waiting years and people's heads haven't even started to deflate.

Good to know I wasn't the only eleven year old that made adults swoon because I was somewhat intelligent. Key word being somewhat: I'm really not that smart. I just know how to speak and write without sounding like a goon.

It was the same way with me. In third grade I had a really stingy teacher that was phonics-obsessed. By then I already knew how to read (I guess I was just lucky; I read an 'exit' sign one day and then it snowballed) and I was bored out of my mind because she didn't even teach anything at all.

It went so far as for her to prescribe me with ADD (a disease that is not a disease at all, but simply a personality facet) and claim I needed remedial help. She didn't even know I had already read 'The Hobbit' when she was trying to teach me what 'T' sounds like. And then to make it worse she went on this terrible egotistical rant about being a teacher for 14 years and having 3 children and knowing more than any first-time parent.

It's swinish harpyesque teachers like these that ruin kids forever when it comes to English. No one learned anything until middle school, and then they were hit with the metaphorical grammar brick. None of them had used a comma in their lives and they were asked suddenly to write paragraphs? No wonder most kids choose to be illiterate chowderheads.

sweatdrop Please excuse the long-winded rant. I've got a lot on my plate when it comes to learning and education mishaps. And please forgive my sickening frequency of parentheses. I like them entirely too much.

That was pretty amusing. I wish -college- was like that. Most college students can barely write a professional-style paper (I feel old now, I'm in college! gonk ). I had to edit a classmate's paper once; he was 26. He spelled "ambulance" as "amulase." I lost more faith in the human race that day.

Wahahahaaaaaaaaaa...ah... What's preposition? sweatdrop We've never been taught that in ANY of my schools, not even the Girl's High Grammar school...