I am sitting in CFAC 230 watching the remaining three students in English 101 finish their grammar exam. Before they set down to take the test, there were skittered remarks about the demise of this component to the course. No more after today will Calvin students have a separate test to evaluate their grammar knowledge from Written Rhetoric!
They think this is cause to celebrate, but really it is a call to the department to incorporate the evaluation into the course more cohesively. Which I think is fair.
Without practice, grammar knowledge fades, and I must confess that a few months after my three week grammar course in January, I have gaps in my memory. I remember where commas go in relation to coordinating conjunctions (after the clause, before the coordinator when it is followed by an independent clause), but don't always remember some other use questions.
I particularly disagree with Chicago Sixteen's decision to have plural s's after everything. Jesus's, Moses's, presumably, cats's. How stupid does that last one look? It just feels wrong on the tongue.
Perhaps I should set a better example for these last remaining two now. Although, as far as they are concerned, I am working on my final paper.
Except that I have finished enough to satisfy the prompts and have decided to simply move on to the next task.
Graduation.
And then there was one.
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