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Do 14 year olds in the USA know what "gerund" means? I didn't know terms like that in England in the 2000s, though I picked them up from learning other foreign
by Symbiote 6y ago
Do 14 year olds in the USA know what "gerund" means?
I didn't know terms like that in England in the 2000s, though I picked them up from learning other foreign languages later.
I have heard university professors complain that they can say, simply, "rephrase the paper into the active voice" to a student from <anywhere else>, but many British students don't know what that means.
England now teaches more grammar, but it is not much use generalizing from individual experiences of a particular state/country in a particular decade.
- brightly-salty 6y agoNo, I don’t think most 14-year-olds in the USA would know what a gerund is, but most of them would know active versus passive voice. Maybe the kids in advanced or hobbies classes, though. (Speaking as an American high school student)
- Teknoman117 6y agoYes, we were taught what a gerund _is_, but I never had a teacher who actually called it that.
- cafard 5y agoI did, but because of Latin class, not because of English class.