[chelsea24]

Originally Posted by chuckinca

Can you get from PA or NY to Maine in one day?

No stop in Boston?

.

Good point Chuck! How can anyone miss Boston! What a beautiful city!

[Cassie325]

Originally Posted by chuckinca

Can you get from PA or NY to Maine in one day?

No stop in Boston?

.

I agree with Chelsea.....if you know the East coast....you would stay over in Boston, PROBABLY for several days!!! CHEERS!!!

However....it was the comma in question not the actual states they stayed in.... Thanks for the smile!!!

[Best Mom]

Cassie,
OMG
Stop knocking teachers!!!
Stop trying make it someone is right, someone is wrong!
Everyone has come around to what I said. I think we are all in agreement.

Silly....

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by chuckinca

AGREE - but then I bombed the business letter writing quiz last week.


.

Chuck,

You think you got problems? I am still having flashbacks from how awful I did on that spelling test that was on here a few weeks ago.

Boomer

[renielarson]

All I can say is this:

As a third grade teacher we are instructed, here in Michigan, to put a comma after a list and before the word and.

Whether right or wrong...so be it. Does it really matter?

[Best Mom]

Bright,
Yep, that is what I taught too. But you are so right, that a comma means very little.

[Best Mom]

Bommer,
I could never spell either ....

[Boomer]

What ever happened to that rule, "When in doubt, leave it out"?

Boomer

(Uh oh. I just noticed that it's after midnight and I am not supposed to be typing after midnight.)

[Cassie325]

Originally Posted by Best Mom

Cassie,
OMG
Stop knocking teachers!!!
Stop trying make it someone is right, someone is wrong!
Everyone has come around to what I said. I think we are all in agreement.

Silly....

Oh, I really am not knocking teachers....I love them....my mother was one...but each teacher has a different opinion, so my point was in agreement with Red....I may have won the family debate....but as far as the child goes...it is whatever the teacher tells her is so....as there is no point in arguing with the teacher.....whom she loves dearly!!!

Trust me....I LOVE the teachers....they are truly a Godsend!!! My daughter LOVES MATH....and LANGUAGE ARTS....and GEOGRAPHY.....thanks to the teachers!!!!

[Best Mom]

This was to Boomer. My computer is so slow. That is one thing (computers) I don't understand at all.


Late...I am going to bed.

[Cassie325]

Originally Posted by brightspot01

All I can say is this:

As a third grade teacher we are instructed, here in Michigan, to put a comma after a list and before the word and.

Whether right or wrong...so be it. Does it really matter?

YES....it matters to the child who wants to get it right for the test next week!! Would you want your student to ask that question? I am glad mine asked!!

[Best Mom]

Ok.... but I agree with Red and many others on that thread.


Most teachers agree after we sort it out. It depends on the purpose of the writing and/or the meaning of the sentence.

I just want everybody to be nice. !!!!
Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Not too worry. Good night Cassie.(You are a sweetie)

[Cassie325]

Originally Posted by Best Mom

Ok.... but I agree with Red and many others on that thread.


Most teachers agree after we sort it out. It depends on the purpose of the writing and/or the meaning of the sentence.

I just want everybody to be nice. !!!!
Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Not too worry. Good night Cassie.(You are a sweetie)

Love you too!!! Thanks for your help~!! It all depends on so much....just want to teach the child the right way....and sometimes the right way is the teachers way....atleast in school.....LOL!!

You are a sweetie as well!!! No worries here my friend!!!

[Best Mom]

Cassie,
Yes on a grammar test it matters and we all agreed put the commar before the , and.
Good night sweetie. Don't I sound like an old lady....just trying to let you know you are loved.

[graciegirl]

Another wonderful thing about this place, THE VILLAGES, is that we can write unafraid, writing among the word-smiths that did it for a living all of their life, i.e. Chelsea, RedWitch, Prismz, and many others,.... and we can write, unafraid, among the gifted and dedicated teachers, who encouraged, instructed and graded, i.e. Best Mom, Brightspot, maybe Boomer, (if she wasn't an English teacher, she should have been.)

It is the joy of communicating that matters here!! Thank heavens we are just auditing, not being edited.