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February 4, 2013 04:38 am GMT
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Second Graders Correct NFL Players Tweets
In the battle between elementary school students and pro football players, second graders reign supreme. When it comes to grammar, that is.
Second graders at a New York school had some help from Twitter for their grammar lessons, using the tweets of NFL players to correct spelling, punctuation and sentence structure.
While working in groups, the students "found several mistakes in these tweets, including the incorrect spelling of 'a lot,'" explains a post on Elmwood Franklin School's Facebook page.
The students corrected one gem from 49ers' Chris Culliver who posted, "I pray to God I'm never dieing broke" (tweet has since been deleted), along with other statuses from Patroits' We…
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