r training at school, having attended during the period when teaching
of grammar was banned in at least one Australian state. He assures me he
has
no idea of how to parse an English sentence. Not surprisingly, his
inclination is that English is an Amorphous collection of words of almost
infinite applicability. Essentially, he uses words "because they sound
right
under the circumstances". I might add, that as a software man, he is quite
capable of parsing computer code.
*    By comparison, I was taught forma