This 24th collection of students’ pearls of wisdom, laboriously digitised from hand-written papers, demonstrates once again how students new to the study of language speculate about grammar after having imperfectly absorbed what their teachers think they have taught them.

On language uses

• Our dialect gives us distinctive identity and flavour.

• If you use your dialect often, you are a native dialect speaker.

• The prevalence and common usage of a dialect led to the proliferation of the language. Therefore, its frequent usage in the similar form of sentences is used to justify its correct forms.

• In dialects, we don’t know whether they have official words of the language or they are merely idiolects of a few million speakers of the region.

• The British are to be blamed for dialects. They allowed everyone everywhere through their open port policy, hence diversifying the way the language is spoken.

• We use terms of respect like Auntie to greet females who can be akin or unfamiliar.

• The English language has picked up a multitude of words and included them in the pages of the dictionary.

• English is used in contexts which involve co-workers.

• The English language employs the use of word classes in the structuring of sentences.

• Language is infectious.

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