English here is in really dire straits


THE report “Atrocious English in workbooks” (The Star, July 22) says it all about the dire straits of English in our country. Included in the report were examples reproduced from “actual questions from last year’s Pentaksiran Tingkatan 3 test papers”, for each of which the corrected version was given.

However, some of the corrected versions themselves could do with further correction, as in the following:

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