MonkeyPants

Dude.

So there’s this little guy in one of my classes. His English is pretty proficient, and he’s started augmenting his grammar lessons, to my delight.

The exercises he’s working on give him a grammatically incorrect sentence, and then there’s a line below, where he has to write the sentence correctly. It looks like this:

I want those books. Please give it to me.
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He’s always sailed through getting the grammar right, but now he puts ‘Dude’ into everything:

I want those books, Dude. Please give them to me.

I can’t mark him down for his grammar, and I often encourage him by reading out his work in my best surfer-dude voice.

Hey, it’s November. I’m keeping things light over here.