I think my student is trying to give me high blood pressure.

During our lesson today, I noticed that she still had problems with subject verb agreement. I caught her writing ‘I are’ in her narrative essay and almost fainted. She’s in secondary school; she should know better by now!

When I asked her about it, she claimed that ‘I are’ was correct. After all, one of Timbaland’s songs is titled ‘The Way I Are’, she pointed out blithely.

Argh.