martin hainan
- 2015-02-12
I stand by my 语法, yufa. Your gracious avoidance of her grammatical errors, make you a 'friend of Beth' but a discredit to your moniker.
yu2fa3
- 2015-02-11
Changing "near" to "nearly" is a solution for the agreement of the modifier, but note that her sentence ends: "from the ground up".
Hahaha, you make it sound like it was all your idea rather than being the one corrected. I was talking of your alternative which was wrong and should have been 'nearly.'
martin hainan
- 2015-02-11
Changing "near" to "nearly" is a solution for the agreement of the modifier, but note that her sentence ends: "from the ground up".
I wanted to protect her use of a location metaphor using "near" to complement "from the ground up". I find modifier errors less egregious than mixed or "ungrounded" (sic) metaphors.
There is also the subject-verb agreement problem. The plural subject requires "are".
All in all, a 4.5 IELTS sentence.
martin hainan
- 2015-02-11
Your understanding and application of grammar
and your understanding of teaching methodology is no way near good enough to teach a
language from the ground up!
Since you are critiquing grammar:
Your understanding and application of grammar and your understanding of teaching methodology ARE NOWHERE NEAR good enough to teach a language from the ground up.
Near denotes location, it requires a modifier of place: nowhere. A compound subject requires the plural verb: are.
yu2fa3
- 2015-02-10
nowhere near
she was okay with 'no way' but you are wrong-a bit of tinglish crept in; you have to add ly in that sentence hahaha! You know how to bury yourself, don't you?
Beth
- 2015-02-10
You can also say no way near. It's perfectly acceptable English... Nice try though.
martin hainan
- 2015-02-10
Your understanding and application of grammar and your understanding of teaching methodology is no way near good enough to teach a language from the ground up!
nowhere near
Beth
- 2015-02-10
You are UNDER qualified for that work. Your understanding and application of grammar and your understanding of teaching methodology is no way near good enough to teach a language from the ground up! Not that you're qualified for advanced grammar teaching either, as proved on many occasions (before your tantrum and post deletions) with your dreadful awareness of advance grammar rules and vocabulary definitions!
And to consider any teaching of any students to be "inferior" just shows your complete and utter unsuitability to be an educator.