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Classroom lessons, football commentaries and novels use different registers of the same language, recognised by differences of vocabulary and grammar. But this gives them the problem of saying that such-and-such a sentence is a 'command' and another one is not - based on meaning alone. Famous examples: Margaret Thatcher using the word ‘frit’; Ronald Reagan using the expression, ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet’.

and features the iconic gold Anya Hindmarch logo and bow, a gold-toned zip and a leather tassel zip pull. It's not language which determines how and why we use language but it is people (us) who choose to use language in certain ways. It’s made from high-quality polypropylene, meaning that inevitable coffee spill can be wiped away with the utmost ease. This pencil case form Bellroy looks just like one of those sleek and extra slim pencil cases but can expand to fit a whole lot more.We had the ‘perfect’ (which is one way we can express something in the past) and then the ‘pluperfect’ which to my ears at least made it sound ‘even more in the past’ as if it was ‘perfect-plus’. But in fact, if Standard English is being nudged into how we speak, then it’s quite easy to use non-Standard forms when we are in formal situations. This oversized HB pencil pouch is compact yet spacious and features an embossed “Have A Nice Day” slogan along its side.

Someone pushed him into the spotlight to ‘explain’ that this new ‘grammar’ stuff was defining what an ‘exclamation’ is and that these needed an exclamation mark.I suggest a game: invent new terms for the old terms and come up with any old justification for why it should be the new term. Though the tin has a black insert tray for a more compact design, it can be removed to create ample space for your favourite pencils. More seriously, of course the great industry of worksheets and textbooks don’t and can’t keep up with this nonsense, so quite often they are ‘wrong’. But yet again, this has given them another problem: actually you can bung exclamation marks wherever you want.

This can then be used to compare and contrast it with the use of English by people they know or see on TV. It can house all your pens and pencils, alongside cables and other personal items and is even made from a durable, woven fabric with environmentally certified leather accents. The sentence: ‘You should bring a coat’ can be - purely on the basis of meaning - be a ‘command’ in the everyday sense. Anyway, the point is that these sentence-types were devised on the basis of grammar and language structure.

Clearly, we use a word like ‘command’ in real life (as opposed to the Alice in Wonderland world of ‘grammar’) to mean ‘to command’ and we can choose a variety of structures to do this depending on who it is who’s speaking and who that speaker is speaking to. I wonder whether the worksheets of the kind that I’ve seen have mixed up ‘formal’ with ‘correct’ and ‘casual’ with some kind of wrongness. If one of the choices in a multiple choice question is reasonable and feasible but is ‘wrong’ then the test fails.

That’s to say, one of the whole points about the language we use is that we know that no one word means exactly the same as another.but because the examiners’ definition of ‘grammar’ is slippery and inconsistent (one moment using it to mean something defined by ‘structure’ as with Question 1, the next - as with this question - using it to include meaning. As a grammar school pupil (nb NOT at primary school) we chanted conjugations of verbs in French, German and Latin lessons. Narrowing this down to the kind of distinction that tells us that sentence one is supposedly ‘more formal’ than sentence two, seems to me to be absurd, all the more so given that I’m not clear that the examiners or anyone else has a clear definition of what is ‘formal’. As a general comment, it’s important to point out that the sentences used for this test are ones made up by the examiners. Clearly, here the claim is being made that we do speak Standard English and it’s something to do with ‘formal’ situations.