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I would like to lodge a formal complaint against the pitiful state most people's grammar has reached. I'm editing together a group paper for a class, and am cringing in abject horror at some of the sentences. Commas are left out or added unnecessarily, tense and voice keep changing without rhyme or reason, there have been multiple incomplete sentences, and five-dollar words are thrown around without any attention paid to little things like their definition. The phrase "which may not be as clear to everyone as to what it means" is barely English. I realize my grammar has slipped since high school, but it makes me wonder if we're headed back to the days of "Ye olde publeek Univirsitie."
And with that, I have three more pages of a paper to edit.
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