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Personally, having worked as a writer and wanting to be a novelist, my standard for literacy does include knowing the differences between "they're/there/their",
by electromagnetic 16y ago
Personally, having worked as a writer and wanting to be a novelist, my standard for literacy does include knowing the differences between "they're/there/their", "we're/were/where/wear", etc. So from what I've seen about 50% of students are graduated illiterate.
I'd also add that they should know how to use who and whom, but then that would be making our population 90% illiterate.
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoWhatever happened to whom? You never hear or read it anymore. It's gone the way of will and shall, nobody seems to know or care about the difference. "Do not ask for who the bell tolls..." -- sounds like crap, but that's the way they'd write it today.
- andrewcooke 16y agono they wouldn't. they'd write "don't ask who the bell tolls for." which sounds fine.