Late October Blues

It's been almost two months and I have not yet posted the first blog update of the school year. There are two ways to look at this: (1) Shame on you, teacher! You are as lazy as your students! (2) I have such great students this year that they make very few funny errors. I will let you decide which of these is closest to the truth. On to the sentences, and as always, these are from real student papers and my comments are in (   ).

- I'm good at interpretating quotes. (But not spelling.)
- I mine as well suck it up.
- A man of money, moral, and book.
- Pearl... often portrayed devilish ways towards Hester.
- (In answer to the question: "What is wrong with Betty?") Putnam
- He doesn't want to seam a coward.
- She has gone on a ship to Barara. (Where is that, exactly? Show me on this map.)
- A man and women can be incredably happy with bearing a child.
- ...if John had never "lechered" her. (Are the quotation marks for fun, or are you not sure if lechered is a word? Hint: it's not.)
- John Proctor says "God is dead" because. (Thanks, I always wondered.)
- John decides to go rip up his confession because it was a true lie. (Actually, I believe "True Lies" was a bad Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.)
- Small groups of African immigrants are aloud to temperately stay in the United States.
- Holden was in the mists of a bit of a tiff.
- This idea reached a high level of belief.
- He was allocated for his accomplishments.
- Elizabeth got pregnant so she got out of her excretion.

I just can't make a joke about that last one... just can't.

J