i hate to be a stickler on this, but i'd point out that- while tense absolutely does matter- the conjugation you used was indicative past perfect. definitely preferable to indicative or (not that we use it much anymore, but..) subjunctive future, but present tenses would be:
we win
are winning
have won
have been winning
language matters. enjoy, and definitely choose your words carefully; it modulates how you see the world, in what resolution, and with what granularity
Also a Southerner, but my English teachers (beginning in the early grades) drilled us all the time on grammar. Even if we didn't always use the proper forms in everyday speech, we did when we wrote anything. In middle school, we diagrammed sentences till we could handle the most complicated one. Still a grammar Nazi.
i hate to be a stickler on this, but i'd point out that- while tense absolutely does matter- the conjugation you used was indicative past perfect. definitely preferable to indicative or (not that we use it much anymore, but..) subjunctive future, but present tenses would be:
language matters. enjoy, and definitely choose your words carefully; it modulates how you see the world, in what resolution, and with what granularity
Sorry, I was born in the South, and have a congenital defect when it comes to forming the English language.😁
But you're absolutely right. It's not so much a nation we inhabit, but a language
definitely
Also a Southerner, but my English teachers (beginning in the early grades) drilled us all the time on grammar. Even if we didn't always use the proper forms in everyday speech, we did when we wrote anything. In middle school, we diagrammed sentences till we could handle the most complicated one. Still a grammar Nazi.