Good English and Bad

Hello again

For this post I am  going to discuss about a a recent text I have read, "Good English and Bad" by Bill Bryson. to begin I would like to talk about what exactly the  title is trying tell us about the text? Like is it going to be one that tells us which is wrong and which is right?, or possibly which was better English, with no alterations. 

The answer is no, because the text is about English language, its rules created by grammarian often simply ignored because of the over complicated words. Overall, the author of the text has sent a message about the standard use of the English language and its rules that have been forced onto us with  can have no actual reason. Then the author begins to use irony, saying that the reason why the word hopefully is not allowed to be used in an absolute value is because "somebody at New York Times once had a boss who wouldn't allow it because his professor had forbidden it, because his father thought it was ugly..., because he had been told so by his uncle..., and so on". I think author is  criticizing and questioning the standards above by mentioning some "pieces of advice" which after less than a century became "immutable rules". The example that the author is giving in this case is the rule according to which you should not end a sentence with a preposition. The text contains many more examples about the  rules of English and the way English has changed after it started  the "grammatical percepts" of Latin, which died thousands of years ago. 

Taken as a whole, this discussion made me think about my mistakes and made me realize how complex the English language really is. Reading this text, I found  some rules that are completely new to me, which gave me the  opportunity to learn something new. Which improves my English and my view of the English language. 

Thanks for reading