We had an eye-opening conversation during school yesterday. After working on a grammar worksheet that focused on complete sentences and sentence fragments independently Clarissa was confused about why so many of her answers were wrong.
Clarissa - "But mom, none of these have seven words in them so they can't be a complete sentence."
Me - "What do you mean seven words long?"
Clarissa - "Well all my old public school teachers said that that a complete sentence had to be at least seven words long, or it wasn't a sentence."
Now I understand why both my girls have struggled so long with grammar and writing. And it makes me even more grateful we are homeschooling now.
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