Grammar Homework

Believe it or not.

Grammar Exercises are meant for teachers, not students.

All those drills on tenses, synthetic sentences, paragraphing, continuous verbs etc., are meant to help the English Teacher (previously with good english), to counter the harmful side-effects caused by marking essays with frightfully bad English, repetitively.

After a cycle of traumatic marking, the teacher usually starts to doubt herself, wondering if she was the one who had it wrong all the while,
because at least 30 out of 42 students in the class wrote:

"I are having many fun at the camp"
or "John is self-preservative when he denied that he lied."
when she was almost certain that she had used the word self-preservation the other day to decribe the protagonist's knack for preserving himself from harm.

Without grammar exercises, the poor English Teacher might hit a mid-career crisis of speaking English like a Hokkien-spewing Ah Lian, whose adjectives, nouns, and verbs, that are the Hokkien manifestations of words associated with certain body parts below the torso.

***[Edit] Upon re-reading my entry, I realized with horror, that I've mis-spelt all my "Exercise" as "Excercise"; and "Believe" as "Belief"

*Roll eyes 360 degrees and burn off all my hair*