Eventually, when she was still in grammar school, she lost sight in her second eye.
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So how does a mere difference in grammar cause people to save less for their retirement?
The difference between the passive voice and the active voice is subtle in grammar, but profound in impact in speech.
Reading it aloud also helps you catch mistakes in grammar and style.
The Edmund Rice Schools Trust runs the Abbey Grammar in Newry, St Mary's Christian Brothers Grammar in west Belfast and the CBS Grammar in Omagh.
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In 1996 she published research she had conducted with Clyde Chitty from which they concluded that academically able pupils in comprehensives did just as well as their equivalents in grammar schools.
Two thousand low paid staff in grammar and grant maintained integrated schools who did not get the original payment will also receive the payment from the department - they will get a double payment.
Mr Willetts also distanced himself from the traditional Tory belief in academic selection, saying it was "fantasy" to say selection at the age of 11, which takes place in grammar schools, could be fair.
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Mr Willetts first spoke of the policy change at a speech earlier this week, saying it was a "fantasy" to say selection at the age of 11, which takes place in grammar schools, could be fair.
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But when I meet teachers who can't spell, who are incapable of drafting a simple letter to parents without making basic mistakes in grammar and punctuation, I have to wonder exactly what my children are being taught.
He said there were firm plans for some sectors, such as amalgamations among Catholic maintained secondary schools in Lurgan and the grammar schools in Enniskillen.
Taking advantage of cheaper processing power, the rise of new computer languages and the increasing urgency of the problem, these companies' own complex software seeks flaws in programming grammar, reverse-engineers applications to see that they do what they're supposed to and emulates the malicious hacks they will face once they're put in use.
Now Kent County Council has voted to press ahead with plans to set up a "satellite school" in Sevenoaks linked to existing grammar schools in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
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Mr Coles said that Paddington Academy in London and William Hulme Grammar School in Manchester, also run by United Learning, would share leadership of the initiative to provide initial teacher training for 50 students from September this year and some 200 trainee teachers the following year.
This is an all-girls grammar school, founded in 1911, and one of five grammar schools of the King Edward Foundation now under threat in the city.
Michael Alasdair McNaughton, 24, of Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, had played for Aberdeen Grammar in Scotland's top-flight Premiership.
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Unfortunately, neither the K-12 or university community is helpful in promoting proper grammar.
Holders Our Lady's Castleblayney will take on Rathmore Grammar in the last eight.
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In an English class, two teachers working as a team another education-ministry innovation get the classroom involved in an arcane grammar lesson.
In a French grammar lesson at the College Chevereus, 11-year-olds copy word for word from the blackboard, and are corrected if they leave too wide a margin.
I'm all in favour of grammar schools where they exist and indeed I think schools should have the freedom to select if necessary, on the basis of academic ability.
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Magnus Mackay from Fortrose Academy, Ross-shire, Scotland, Alexander Mills from Newport Free Grammar in Newport, Essex, Jenny Norris, Little Heath School, Reading, Berkshire, Jonathan Perrin, Southlands School, Lymington, Hants.
In the back of the bookstore prior to his interview, Mr. Lutz discussed some recent and disappointing trends in punctuation and grammar, a subject about which he is writing a book.
"It's a very good idea to train people into understanding their own language, " he said, explaining that the awards were designed to shine light on the misuse of grammar in modern society.
Barbara Cooper tells the site how she and the "Old girls" of Saltley Grammar in Birmingham celebrated their 60th birthdays with a reunion of friends from all over the world who got back in touch via the internet.
The comparison doesn't sit well with the British student, who's currently in Year 8 at Colchester County high school, a selective girl's grammar school in Essex, England.
He was born in Ealing, went to Hendon grammar school, and served in the Army during the war, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Born in London's East End on 8 April 1943, Herbert won a scholarship to St Aloysius Grammar School in Highgate at the age of 10.
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