You accuse me of failing to "address anything" that you actually said. One would logically assume that perhaps you would address at least some of the content in my post...but rather you choose the easy way out. You could have addressed my writing. However you decided to dissect my writing...do you honestly expect me to proof-read my posts or to pay a lot of attention to posts I'm making on a random site on the Internet to a bunch of strangers that I'll never even meet? Get real. I'm fully aware that the previous sentence was incomplete.
But it's time to put my English teacher hat on and explore what you mean by "refutation". What was your original concession/counterclaim before your refutation? I'm assuming that you actually know what the word "refutation" means when it's used during an argument or a debate.
And finally you said that my sentence of "There's a lot wrong with the curriculum," is a fragment.
You are incorrect. A fragment is a NOT a complete sentence. My sentence WAS a complete sentence.
"There'" is a contraction which is two words combined "there" and "is". The word "is" IS a verb. So I clearly have a verb. I know that it can be difficult for some to understand how/why the word "is" is a verb-but it is. I obviously have a subject ("curriculum"). All you need for a simple sentence is one verb and one subject (this creates a clause). Therefore my sentence IS a complete simple sentence.
I suggest before you try being a smart ass that you actually know what you're talking about.
Son, I do think it is terrifically cute that you are still trying to pose as an English teacher here, and I do have to admire your gumption for even attempting such, but it appears that your recent visit to any sort of English class involved sitting more or less quietly and facing the front. I'm sure this wasn't an AP class, either.
You have once again failed to comprehend the written word, here, for my suggestion that you use a comma rather than a period so as to avoid a fragment did not suggest that what came before the period was a fragment, but what came after. A dependent clause is not a complete sentence, and I might suggest you ask your teacher about the use of subordinating conjunctions here for some further detail.
As to my use of the word refutation, I was entirely in line with its understood meaning. I refuted the very much ignorant platitude offered by Dalai when he wrote " Almost all Muslims are kind and devout people it's just the few extremists that give them a bad name". I did so by referencing a very well-respected research organization detailing many facets of Muslim belief. You obviously cannot comprehend the meaning of confirmation bias here, because his dishonesty by way of reply was closer to an example of such than by referencing this research.
I see no reason to address anything you have said in your posts because you have simply created a straw man that is irrelevant to anything I have said. I do not jump through hoops just because a seventeen year old boy posing as an English teacher demands it. You were the one who responded to me, so the onus is upon you to write something at least remotely germane. I have no interest in discussing Common Core, and have made no claims that it is being used to indoctrinate children into Islam. I simply questioned the motivation of such an inclusion, and refuted some ignorant notions as to what Muslims actually believe.
