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Pigale, no, not at all!
It is not boring!
That is exactly what the thread is for.

Albie, I shall have a wee pop at Paddy P next week, too!

By the way Chrise, a lot of confusion indeed between
'BIEN' and 'BON' , but I am sure you know the difference.

One of my favourites is a black man'shirt do only black men wear them.My grandson informs me that grammar is old fashioned and therefore deemed unneccessary

That's often the problem with the younger generation Doglet - if we are not careful, they will soon spell phonetically, and I am sorry but to me an ELEPHANT withoug its PH is an elephant without his trunk!
But there you go, I am probably old fashioned!

rough - sounds like ruff, hence GH
women = pronounced "wimmin", hence O
attention - pronounced atten sh un, hence TI


gives GHOTI = FISH

Back now with clean (and straighter!) hair....
Harking back to Pigale's stale of teaching the ABC of grammar...this is exactly how I was taught at school! We learned everything: nouns, pronouns adjective,s adverbs, adjectival clauses , adverbial clauses, use of the subjunctive, gerunds, conjunctions - you name it we had to learn it!
I loved English grammar and went on to feel exactly the same about Latin!
Didn't anybody else learn English Grammar like that?

sorry about the extra 's' - even Pigale's TALE!

No.

Hi, Rusty!
That was a very unequivocal 'No'! but think how boring it would be if we all liked the same subjects? My favourites at school were English Language and Latin, but I went on to study the Sciences and Maths. And became a Biomedical Scientist.
What subjects did you like at school then? You are such an avid reader, and so very well informed about so many subjects, I would find it hard to narrow it down and guess at what you were interested in during your schooldays?
How did the football go? did you get the result you wanted? or did you opt for the watching the shinty instead?

Elle, your 'And ... ' sentence does not follow the grammatical rules for beginning a sentence with And.

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

I loved parsing sentences when I was young, but I think some of the rules were far too rigid. I am happy that many of them are not followed so slavishly.