Study Skills

Learnt a lot in my study skills lecture today...mostly how bad I am at English!! There are so many grammar rules I don't know, for example

• "I was stood" is incorrect English, seems perfectly normal to me! But maybe I'm just thick!
• You shouldn't split infinitives, because you can't in latin or something like that (?!?) Meaning phrases such as "To boldly go" are incorrect!!
• Criteria is the plural of criterion, so you can't use it in singular terms. Glad to know it's not just me that didn't know this, the Black Eyed Peas obviously didn't either: "Negative images is the main criteria"!! Shocking!!

We also learnt something about serial commas (you should avoid using them in academic writing apparently) quite a scary image really, evil serial killing commas...!!!

Don't know why I'm bothering to learn a foreign language when I can't even speak my own properly!!