Helping GED Students
Preparing an adult student to take the GED exam takes time and patience. Since Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science require good reading skills, that should be your primary concern.
Most of the Mathematics section involves word problems. Even if your students have no problem with basic math functions, can they translate words into correct action? I recommend that you begin your lessons with lots of reading comprehension assignments.
"TO BE" or not "TO BE"?
That title might be familiar to those Shakespeare fans out there, but this is a different question. This is about whether or not to use "to be" in contemporary English.
Example 1: My car needs to be washed.
Example 2: My car needs washed.
Although the second example gets the point across, is it correct grammar?
Well, maybe yes, maybe no. My word processing program finds both expressions acceptable. So if you want correct or want to be correct, the choice is yours.
Submitted by Bob Burger
