| CC members, I apologize if some of the things I told you were confusing. I tried what I could and gave you links to verify anything that I wrote.
B!um, if it was not taken from a handbook I guess that now it is me who was lying. I find it absurd that you are still arguing over this silly thing while the State of Department confirms it on its site. As I said in my last post, the note in the handbook just stated that F-1 students would need a new I-20 if they spend more than 5 months outside of the US. However, it did not give as much details as the site nor explained in which condition the student should get the new I-20. Nevertheless, I looked for more information and posted the details up there but you are still bugging me?
“If you choose to participate in a study abroad program, you will most likely be outside of the US for more than 5 months. While you will be need (a) new I-20, the time you spent on the study abroad program counts towards your eligibility for Optional Practical Training.”
There is no grammatical error in the sentence and if the book is written with "poor grammar” beside the (a) that I omitted when I copied it. The grammar is maybe not complex because the author is not writing stances. It is a handbook that was printed at an English Language Institute for students who came here without any knowledge of English so what kind of "grammar" do you want them to use? If you want, I can scan the page and send it to you.
“I would be shocked by a handbook written in such poor grammar.”
I did not know that you were Lord or Dona "Shakespeare" sinor or sinora. If you can command the English language so perfectly that you feel the need to humiliate people, then good for you. Even if I were the one who wrote what you assumed to be “poor grammar”, I would not feel ashamed of my supposedly “poor grammar” because I never learnt English at school and I only started to learn it this summer. So yeah! I can’t claim to be Larry Shue or Noam Chomsky when it comes to English or good grammar but you are really lucky to have good writing and grammar skills. You should actually think about writing a book. I bet that you can beat Tom Stoppard’s record. You will definitely be successful if you write and publish one with the title “How to write English without poor grammar”. I look forward to reading your ABC of the English grammar. I wish you the best! |