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Text1: The Harm When Schools Play Down Writing

I can only speak for whats happening in the U.K., but it seems to me that attitudes to grammar teaching here are profoundly socially 1._________. Kids at fee-paying schools are 2._________ to be given a pretty good 3._________ in the mechanics of language, while the others are 4._________ taught that grammar is 5._________ compared with expressing yourself. This makes me crazy. Imagine its the piano we are talking about. Which would be 6._________: a) to express yourself 7._________ on it; or b) first learn to play the thing? Of course, the difference is that people are not 8._________ every day on their ability to play the piano. Kyle Wiens is right to point out that when young people are taught to 9._________ literacy as a life skill, they are being cruelly 10._________.
1. DECIDE 2. LIKE 3. GROUND 4. LARGE 5. IMPORTANCE 6. GOOD 7. FREEDOM 8. JUDGEMENT 9. VALUE 10. LEAD

Text 2:
In most jobs, the ability to write clearly and 1._________ remains an essential skill. It 2._________ the worker who takes direction from the boss who can leverage the power of text to write down 3._________ and leave them for someone else. Only the writer skilled in grammar is 4._________ with representing a company in a letter or an e-mail. Only the entrepreneur who can 5._________ express a new idea in writing can craft a business plan that will win the faith of partners and investors. Language is no less 6._________ than math. As the book title Eats, Shoots and Leaves demonstrates, a single comma can change a sentence about the diet of a panda to one 7._________ the behavior of a dine-and-dash killer. The 8._________ of digital technology makes precision in language even more important than before. As the grammar of standard English extends to the grammar of code, our errors find themselves embedded in programs and replicating further and more widely than 9._________ imaginable. Even a poorly constructed tweet reflects a poorly constructed thought, while grammatically lacking e-mail messages have become the hallmark of password phishing scams. Without command of grammar, one can't even 10._________ read, much less write.

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