Posts Tagged: grammar moment
The world of English grammar is filled with rules, exceptions, and contradictions to everything. As a grammarian who taught post-high school English grammar classes, I learned a few ways to teach my students how to find the right words to use without giving a long lecture about objective and subjective pronouns. (Yawn!) Poor me. A … Read the rest →
I did something the other day–it was a thing that I don’t ever do. It horrified me a little. I don’t know if I’ve been taken over by a pod person. What was the horrible thing that I did? *whispers* I used the wrong pronoun agreement in a compound phrase in a conversation with another person. (OK, … Read the rest →