Some things we learned about Beijing Joe from the G7:
Who is really leading this nation? Seriously, who wrote the flash cards, and who decides which reporters the stuttering imbecile can call on? Is it Susan Rice, or God forbid, "Dr. Jill"? Dr. Jill received exactly as many votes for President as did I, but in fairness, her command of the English language ... needs help. A part of her dissertation, the one that earned her the moniker "doctor" (but not doctor).
The needs of the student population are often undeserved [sic], resulting in a student drop-out rate of almost one third
Makes sense. If the needs of the student population are undeserved, then they should be ignored and the students should drop out. Is that your contention, "Dr." Jill? She goes on.
Today, the community college not only answers the needs of transfer students but has also emerged to address the needs of career education, vocational and technical education, contract training, and community services.
One of my pet peeves is misplacement of modifiers such as "only" and "not only." For example, "The cafeteria not only serves rice and beans, but also jello." The author presumably is underscoring the importance of the food choices, not the fact the cafeteria not only serves but ... cleans afterwards? The correct construction is, "The cafeteria serves not only rice and beans, but also jello."
"Dr." Jill, being a middling intellect, pretend "doctor" (unlike Dr. Jimmy, holder of a glorious juris
doctorate), naturally errs in her sentence structure and places the modifier "not only" in the wrong place. She was attempting to say, "Today, the community college answers the needs
not only of transfer students but has also emerged [sic] to address the needs of career education, vocational and technical education, contract training, and community services.
Additionally, "Dr." Jill engages in something called "broken parallelism" when she fails to use the same verb conjugation in both clauses - she uses the active tense "answers" but then follows up using a different conjugation known as "past perfect tense," i.e., "has also emerged." A simple example shows the stilted, non-grammatical tactic she employed - "We wanted to run, bike, jog, and sprinting." The verbs are of a different conjugation. I learned parallelism in 8th grade. "Dr." Jill apparently missed that year.
Dr. Jill goes on to write:
B.S. Hollinshead, president of a junior college in Pennsylvania, wrote that the junior college should be ‘a community college meeting community needs.’
You don't say. Hey, let me give it a crack: "Dr. Jimmy, eminent legal scholar, wrote that lawyers should be lawyering to has been meeting lawyering needs." Genius.
Let me put it this way - the materials I post on this forum are more well-supported and annotated than "Dr." Jill's Ed.D. dissertation, and with better grammar, spelling and punctuation than "Dr." Jill's dissertation.