 their meaning, sometimes causing considerable
trouble, and
6.   expediency on the part of the author in terms of not using the
correct terminology to indicate their meaning, due to lapses of memory, or
time or other pressures.

     .    Regarding point 4, when, some while ago, I described a
reduction in the level of teaching of formal grammar, my comments were
derided by some SUO participants - the words "utterly bizarre" were used.
*    It so happens that a work colleague adjacent me had no formal
gramma