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In article <1992Dec22.212350.12902@stsci.edu> jwilliam@stsci.EDU (John Williams) writes:
>
>I agree with those who believe good grammar is important.  For me, the 
>purpose of writing is communication.  If I do not make the effort to clearly 
>express my ideas, the reader won't waste his time on what I have to say.
>Numerous readers have called me after reading one of my magazine 
>articles.  I've found they take great delight in nailing you when you've 
>made a mistake (grammatical or otherwise).

Split infinitives like "...effort to clearly express my ideas..." 
notwithstanding :-)

But seriously; I am fortunate in having been an 8th-grader who slaved away
diagramming sentences and, as a result, have been able to learn foreign
languages with much greater ease than my diagram-challenged contemporaries.

My copy of Warriner's is long gone, but the memories linger on...

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