Mar 25, 2015 · I went to a K-8 school, but it did have different terms for what the grades were. Kindergarten was just kindergarten, grades 1-3 were elementary school, grades 4-5 were grade school, and grades 6-8 were middle school. After that, I went to …

On a holiday, they are neither in school nor at school, so you can use either preposition without any loss of meaning. The one exception may be if the football team had a Saturday practice. In that case, I might say that David was at the school, but not in school – but that is a rare circumstance. Normally, either word works fine for the ...

Jul 2, 2014 · if you enrol at a school or other institution, or if someone enrols you there, you put your name on the official list of its students or members. enrol at: Andrew cannot enrol at his local school because the class is full. enrol someone in/on something: Isabelle enrolled her brother in a training programme for engineers.

Jan 27, 2012 · you should capitalize the word principal when it goes before a proper noun, such as "Principal Skinner", or "Mr. Skinner, Principal of Springfield Elementary School". you should not capitalize the word principal when the word stands alone without a person's name like "we're sending you to the principal".

I have this problem now: a list of posed questions. I had come to the conclusion that quotes were best because (a) you need unambiguous list control (commas/semicolons, and 'and/or'), (b) the questions may involve punctuation of their own, and (c) the overall sentence may be a question.

Jan 8, 2013 · But if the school name does not include an "of", and especially if its name consists of a proper noun prepended to a school type, do not use "the": Carleton College, South Dakota State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, etc. (Naturally, as pointed out by Shaun in his answer, there will be exceptions.)

Feb 29, 2016 · I teach school. (MAG (1 time), SPOK (3 times)) I'm a Roman Catholic and I teach Sunday school. (SPOK) I teach high school here at a private school. (SPOK) I teach history in high school. (SPOK) I teach religion in high school. (SPOK) with school as modifier (11 hits) The possible construction is no preposition + zero article. I teach high ...

Jun 21, 2017 · The Oxford Guide to Style (2002) doesn't address the question of how to punctuate the introductory sentence of a vertical list, but in its section 9.1.4 ("Displayed lists"), it presents three examples of displayed lists and in each case introduces an example list with a complete sentence followed by a colon. Here is the first example, with its ...

Aug 18, 2019 · These represent a small number of orthographic holdouts: In the EEBO I corpus, from 1640 to the end of the century, there are 9877 attestations for school and only 17 for scool. Over the first four decades of the 17th c., then, the Latin-inspired spelling supplanted the one closer to Middle English.

Feb 24, 2021 · "Cole is cheerily running around the house, looking for Hank to take him to school." "Usually, Hank takes him to school, but Cole can’t seem to find him anywhere." "I will take you to the parent-teacher conference today." "I …