/lit/ - Literature

>BA English graduate here
>not well versed in grammar and syntax in the least

What school did you go to? Turnpike Tech?

>>4114022
not op or even an english major, but what classes in college even cover that stuff? isn't that the kind of thing you're expected to know going IN to college (not an insult, op, as most people don't)?

>>4114026
They're called English classes.

>>4114026
Possibly. I was in a religious high school, so most of the classes were watered down with Christian rhetoric. When I got to university, there were too many topical subject requirements, which I guess meant that grammar or syntax studies didn't get a spot. All that's a long way of saying I was too lazy to do it myself, or I didn't bother, because I've been relatively unambitious.

>>4114022
My marks were good throughout my university writings, so I figured I could rely on whatever intuitive sense of things I had. I'd like to get more precise in editing, and eventually have my thoughts more organized, if possible. It was pretty liberal though, so the need to study diverse literature studies drowned out other types of English classes, I think.

Linguistics major here,

Get pic related OP, it's super accessible and comprehensive w/r/t syntax and grammar.

>>4114029
Your college-level English classes taught grammar? Mine just taught textual analysis and forms of essay writing. Grammar was expected, like the anon said.

>>4114026
I'm in an upper level class right now called modern grammar.

>>4114082

So you knew what X Bar theory is and how it works beforehand did you?

Pro-tip: that isn't the kind of "grammar" OP is talking about.

>>4114079
Thanks, I'll pick it up.

>>4114084
The closest I saw at my university would have been philosophy courses on symbolic logic.

>>4114082
>Mine just taught textual analysis and forms of essay writing
Same here. It's called an English degree, but it's basically an English literature degree. That doesn't mean people don't expect it from me now though.

>>4114093
I had linguistics in high school, yes. Is that incredibly uncommon?

>>4114114

You don't need to know the difference between inflectional phrases and small clauses to study novels, so you're full of shit if you claim that syntax and grammar are required for and English degree.

>>4114120

Anyway, I'm off. This board is full of faggots and I'm done wasting my pearls of wisdom on swine like you.

>inb4 you reply to me like a retard; I won't be here to read it, chucklefuck

>>4114114
When there needs to be room in the curriculum for religion, yes. This is a bad thing.

>>4114079
Not OP but thank you for this. I was wondering the same thing.

>>4114079
>>4114099
>>4114201

elearning . ustb . edu . cn / UploadFile/20111229084900114.pdf

>>4114123
>This board is full of faggots
I take back my thank you. Asshole.

>>4114204
I like free things, thank you.

>>4114022
Schools basically don't teach it any more since the rise of descriptivism etc.

>>4114015
Who doesn't pronounce the 'l' in talked?

>>4114204
dear diary,
today I fell in love with anon.

>>4114123
Somebody got mad as fuck for no reason

>>4114283
me

i pronounce it a bit like "tawk"

feels bydlo man

>>4114305
Well, it's a dark 'l'; in a lot of accents it's easy to just eat it.