text_combined: 8 792 disc grammar uk schools response engaged sort debate several decades side atlantic tend agree professor sampson remarks value teaching grammar uk schools agree _ _ grammar taught public even educated public even school teachers administrators least u ignorant last century work linguistics teaching grammar turn easy professor sampson seems imply example many probably linguists correct usage part grammar sociolinguist would prefer correct usage taught secondary schools clearly labeled something grammar even within nearly us would consider grammar taught educators sic u politician would seem prefer traditional grammar linguists misnamed prescriptive grammar actually mostly proscriptive teaching traditional grammar attraction teaching phlogiston theory nonscientists passing serious science many colleagues linguistics disagree question grammar taught uk schools rather sort grammar taught everywhere think carl mills university cincinnati