English was my favorite subject in high school. I loved studying grammar, and diagramming sentences made me giddy. Still does. I laughed out loud at this article about diagramming Sarah Palin's particular, ahem, "style" of speech.
Grammar is one of those thing that you don't notice until it goes terribly wrong. A person can be impeccably dressed, perfectly coiffed and have a spot-on handshake, but when he or she opens his or her mouth and says "whelp" instead of "welt" or hands in a memo incorrectly using "it's" or "its," the facade is ruined.
If you are like me (not "I"), you'll love this article as well.
Speak well, or forever hold your peace!
4 comments:
i love this!!
amen. i'm a grammar nazi as well. and a spelling freak. i love it when people write "grammer" LOL double whammy!!!
laura mc
If you only knew how much grammar issues drive me crazy. "It's & "its" and "your & "you're" make me insane...equally as infuriating--the mispronunciation of "mischievous." Everyone says "mis-chee-vee-us." Ugh.
And now I realize I left off quotation marks after "your." Geez.
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