Frustrations in Teaching - II

[dcseain]

Following up on this post, i have a poll on use of the subjunctive in Modern English. I've read all your comments on the last post, and am using them to compose the follow-up, and i belive, culminating post on this topic.

Oh, and i'd like to point out that not all of the following are valid, and some are only valid in limited contexts in some dialects, insofar as i am aware.

[Poll #1001250]

Comments

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Modulo the lower-case "i" in choice #10. ;-)

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

By now, i'd've thought you'd've noticed that i mostly don't capitalize the pronoun I. Though for consistency's sake, that should be an I not an i in choice 10.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

I had missed it, actually, because you still capitalize it at the beginning of a sentence. Any particular reason for the spelling?

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

It's a silly holdover from the days when we capitalized nouns/pronouns, as in modern German.