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Etcetera said
Our discussion.Nice alliteration.


thankee very much
Etcetera said
In this case it's the best. *Grabs you by your furry tail and nails it to the ground*


what case
Multifarious said
*Hears someone say that grammar is the best upon arrival, then turns tail and immediately leaves again.


"ties tail to the tack (nail) truly tightly"
Etcetera said
Grammar is the best.


Tied with maths and the mathematical sciences.
Etcetera said
If you put that sentence in a book, it would have been torn apart. =P


Heh, yeah. Misunderstandings abound.
Etcetera said
Ah. I thought it was referring to a large quantity of things, and not a higher quality of better.


Well now you know. Although such may have been a better replacement.
Etcetera said
Then you need to get rid of so, or add many before better. =P


So modifies much and is both grammatically and semantically correct. =P It's enhancing the muchness of the betterness of the things.
Etcetera said
You feel so strongly about this that you made a grammar error.


Much wasn't applying to things. If it were, that would be an error. It's applying to better. Much better. Many better would be silly. =P
Etcetera said
Haha, entirely on the dot. She wants us to read it for vocabulary instead of for content. Vocabulary that isn't even hard.


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IT'S EDGAR ALLEN POE. THERE ARE SO MUCH BETTER THINGS THAN VOCABULARY TO LEARN FROM HIM.
Etcetera said
I appreciate it. At least we're going to Poe soon.


Ooh. Although there's the rather prominent chance that your somewhat incompetent teacher will probably try to point out everything but the best literature aspect that could be learned in each of his poems.
Etcetera said
Agreed. We had to read five of her stories.


*shudders* I'm sorry for you.
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