An ice cream cone can result in a 10,000% tip or a 10,000% loss in revenue is without an understanding of decimals.

Every time I begin teaching a grammar lesson, my students tell me that they will never use “this stuff.” In response to their immediate judgment on learning grammar, I attempt to show them that grammar is essential to “real life” communication. Without grammar, confusion would rule.

Our last post looked at our grammar skills by using an 1895 eighth-grade graduation exam that was taken from an original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas.