If You Were a High School English Teacher Who Wanted

Multiple Choice

If you were a high school English teacher who wanted your students to acquire knowledge of especially advanced syntactical sentence structures, your best course of action would be to:

A) Specifically teach them these structures
B) Teach them a wide variety of little-used English vocabulary words
C) Teach them the basics of a language very different from English-perhaps Arabic or Chinese
D) Wait until these structures emerge naturally-something that is likely to happen simply as a result of brain maturation