A Happy Birthday To the Clever Bard!

Happy National Grammar Day!

Didn't know National Grammar Day was a thing?  That's why I'm here, friends.  In honor of this blessed event, I hope you'll enjoy some of my favorite memes.

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Myth Busting: Ending Sentences With Prepositions

 

Okay, it's time to dispel a common grammar myth.  Despite what you may have heard, it is perfectly acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition (prepositions are words that indicate position, such as over, under, through, up, down, etc.).  When you go out of your way to avoid doing so, you end up with a sentence like this:

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My Favorite Resources

As a teacher, writer, and editor, it is important that I stay on top of trends and changes in language and style guides.  While I use a plethora of resources, the following are my favorites.  Between the three, I am almost always able to find what I need.

Haiku Challenge Met

Leave it to my brother to issue this challenge:

Nelson Mandela's Sign Language Interpreter, as written by a Cockney laborer during the final outbreak of the Black Plague in 1666.

As written, it would appear that the subject is the sign language interpreter.  Piece of cake.  But the Cockney laborer part was more difficult.  What I would say in one syllable (sick) takes three in Cockney (Tom and Dick) Still, with a little bit of research (and a lot of rewrites), I think I nailed it.

Why the two an' eight?

Mutt an' Jeff 'ave Tom an' Dick,

But I ain't creamed 'ere.

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So, my sweet younger brother, got any more brain busters for me?