Rules of English punctuated by changing times

She starts by referring to ‘newspapers and letters etc’ when a comma would have fitted nicely with the ‘etc’.

She refers to ‘no knowledge of prepositions’ when she means ‘no knowledge of correct use of prepositions’.

She then places an unnecessary comma after ‘Also’ at the beginning of the sentence ‘Also, nouns, verbs, adjectives,…

This sentence then drones on for a massive 64 words, covering four or five topics, all without a full stop, then ending with the glorious phrase ‘We learned more in our few years in school than now is ever learned up to University level regarding English’.

I have advice for Dorothy Makinson. Calm down dear. The rules of English language are not fixed. They vary with time. That is why we don’t speak like William Shakespeare who, incidentally, spelled his own name five different ways during his lifetime. Much of my own English education was wasted learning old English proverbs such as ‘People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’. Maybe Dorothy Makinson was not at school for that particular lesson. - Shercliff Lad