Grammar Suicide # 5

Grammar suicide chronicles my daily encounters with everything grammatically suicidal. This is not meant to laugh onto Filipinos’ ingenuous English grammar usage but is, rather, meant to induce awareness about the common Pinoy-style deviations from the proper usage of the language. (Charing!)

“Please erase the board after class.”

This is the most classic example of a grammar suicidal. This was taught to me when I was in gradeschool: You erase the writings on the board and not the board itself. I was surprised that I would still encounter this in a univerisity. And I began to doubt if this is already accepted as grammatically correct. But nevertheless, I believe it is still suicidal. Hehe. ∞