Dozens of 17-syllable poems have already been submitted for The National Grammar Day Tweeted Haiku Contest. Follow the Twitter hashtag #grammarday, the official hashtag of National Grammar Day. Check them out here: http://twitter.com//search/GrammarDay. I’m hosting the haiku contest to help celebrate the binding principles of the English language. The top prize is a copy of [...]
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Well formed haiku bring/National Grammar Day glory/tweet your best today
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
National day of grammar/send in your best poem/enjoy glory and prizes
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Grammar, usage and style are what we use to hold language together so it appears with a sense of order and fulfills its basic function. The English language is alive and constantly changing. The rules either allow for flexibility or, after some struggle, change to fit the needs of the language. This change comes not [...]
Parts of (a) sentence(s) sometimes must agree to disagree
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the other forms. Languages are produced democratically, and perhaps none remains more democratic than English. In other words, English is messy. It has conflicting rules about certain things and no rules where there really ought to be one. If we had a [...]
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