Does English Grammar Matter in HS/COLLEGE?

Question

I am currently in 9th grade and I am planning to enter a prestigious college. I was wondering if high school teachers and professors in colleges are so picky about grammar. I am not talking about simple grammar mistakes, as in subject-verb agreement errors. For example, the word "work" is uncountable. If I wrote "I have so many works to do" instead of writing "I have so much work to do," would professors or even high school teachers pick those up and whack points off? I am studying grammar and I realized that there are so many confusing rules. If grammar isn't "big thing," does professor look for "Shakespheare-like" sentences? Or are they more concerned about the content?

One more thing!
There is a lot of rules (A)

There are a lot of rules (B)

Which one is correct?

Answer 1

For a ninth grader I think you are doing quite well with your writing. In college you will be expected to be able to write fluently and effectively. To be effective, you need to be able to express ideas clearly. OK, so how could you do that if you couldn't write grammatically? If you go to an elite school, you will write a lot of papers. My son went to a top ten college and he said that he never took a test after the fall term of his freshman year. It was all papers, papers, papers!

The use of is and are constitutes (is) a long standing debate. In Britain especially, collective nouns are regarded as plural, but in the states, it is more natural to regard them as singular. The crowd is restless. The crowd are restless. :-) But I would use 'are' in the case you cite.
Maybe you will major in Linguistics and spend your life analyzing this sort of thing!

Answer 2

Grammar is the set of rules that govern communication.... It's also a marker of education. Would you trust a surgeon who had bad grammar to pick up a scalpel and start cutting into you?... I don't think I would.

Proper grammar makes your thoughts more understandable to others. Some of the "questions" I've read on this site would be so much easier to understand (and answer) if the asker had used better grammar... In college, you will write alot of papers, and you don't want to get a poor grade, just because your professor couldn't understand your thoughts.

In the "real world" of working, employers and customers will judge you according to your grammar... even if you have a PhD on the wall, if you use poor grammar, others will assume that you don't know your stuff. It will be harder to get a job, harder to get customers, etc.

You ask about the word "work"... "I have so many works to do" or "I have so much work to do".... Either is correct- "many works" and "much work"

Your last question- "rules" is plural, so the verb needs to reflect that- B... Or you can say "There is a large set of rules,"... "The number of rules is huge."

Answer 3

English grammar and language usage is important in school and in life. The better you can express yourself, the more people respect your opinions.

If the purpose of education is to improve your mind, the way you write and speak is a reflection of that improvement. Professors do not expect you to write like Shakespeare or Milton. They expect you to use contemporary English well. The language has changed over the years, and spelling and grammar have evolved. There are several good guides to modern English usage. Ask a teacher for a recommendation.

Answer 4

Grammar is very important. It demonstrates one's intelligence or lack of intelligence. It also shows your pride in how you present yourself and your courtesy to the reader or listener.

The answer is B, "There are a lot of rules."
"Are" is plural, and "is" is singular.

Your examples of "I have so many works to do" and "I have so much work to do" are sentences with two different meanings. Neither is incorrect, but the first sentence implies that you have multiple works or jobs, such as writing multiple novels. The second sentence just means that you have a lot of tasks to complete.

Please take the time to learn proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling. It is the educational equivalent of taking a shower, combing your hair, and brushing your teeth.

Answer 5

Answer B
Yes, ther are alot of rules but your education and intelligence will always be judged on what you say, write and how you go about that (now you are making me nervous about mine-HA!) I am an artist and in a way my bio is years away from a resume or writing by my software senior engineer husband- or my father, who was a nuclear physicist for Rockwell. Your handwriting and technical writing are important and getting scarce in this world of tech and computers- its a part of being an intelligent (not stuffy!), moral, polite human to be able to write, converse and interact in a good way. We were on the subway in NYC (could have been LA though) and I could not, for the life of me, understand what the 2 gang members were saying next to me-not my business, but....Education is education. Your choice of classes or teachers will have an affect too- ask fellow students.

Answer 6

Grammar does be counted. If we don't save to grammatical regulations then we are incomprehensible. The question stems from a ordinary false impression of what 'Grammar' is. i think of the questioner is making use of it to signify 'a sequence of regulations of spelling and different writing conventions taught in college and frequently held to be 'splendid' by skill of the knowledgeable.' by skill of this yardstick, somebody who's attentive to the place to place the apostrophe, is attentive to to no longer write 'He robbed my spouse and that i ...' etc. those Grammar regulations are conventions agreed greater or les explicitly - they're regulations of the 'do no longer walk on the grass' form. Grammar as a term utilized by skill of linguists is a colection of regulations of the 'The women are people who provide start' form - i.e. no longer imposed frequently from outdoors yet deduced from remark of how the language is used. hence, all spoken and written language ought to conform to a pair 'grammar' - otherwise it does no longer be intelligible. distinctive regulations might observe to categories of language use - however the regulations are nonetheless there and nonetheless substantial. If young babies communicate or write to eachother in a manner you may't understand or do in comparison to, then that is becasue the 'grammar' of their utterances isn't comparable to what you employ. i at the instant examine a newspaper article writen in the Fifties the place an academic grew to become into bemoaning the 'ungrammatical' nature of his baby's language. considered one of them mentioned to the different that 'i will only lend you a shilling'. the father grew to become into horrified that his (6 year previous) had no longer mentioned 'i will lend you only a shilling'. for hundreds of years, one technology has hung directly to the theory that it has a ethical monopoly on the 'actual' state of the language. The language has been, so a techniques as such persons are in touch, 'going to the canines' for hundreds of years. And English is a international language understood by skill of greater people in the international than the different language ever. inspite of the incontrovertible fact that, on the subject be counted of wheter babies in US and uk faculties ought to study greater language skills - extremely speaking to distinctive aim industry, writing and language understanding. Yep, i'm with you on that one.

Answer 7

Grammar is very, very important!

And the answer is B.