Grammar is easy, / and haiku is easy, too. / Go tweet about it.

Entrants in the 2013 National Grammar Day Tweeted Haiku Contest. If you don't see yours on the list, or if you're not on Twitter, send your entry to [email protected]

  1. at, in, on, by, for // relating time or place - // lakeshore pebbles #grammarday @editormark's contest: ow.ly/i6hwz
  2. I could not care less/if you're using "decimate"/to mean "massively reduce." #grammarday #haiku
  3. Grammar: like haiku,/it has rules for following/and for breaking. #grammarday
  4. Yeah, you can eat shoots - But shoot leaves leave you hungry - For better grammar. #grammarday @EditorMark
  5. Dear yoga teacher:/If you say "lay down" once more,/I'll hurt you. No lie. #grammarday
  6. Loo, what sholde a man / in thyse dayes now wryte / egges, or eyren #grammarday
  7. I love new words, but / 'irregardless' and 'conver / sate' still make me cringe. #grammarday #marchforth
  8. "I before e" rule / and a warm wind in winter: / lies, all goddamned lies. #grammarday
  9. I don't think it's fair/To have a haiku contest/Writers don't do math #grammarday
  10. Ode to a semicolon:/Sometimes a comma; best used/periodically #grammarday cc @hfuhrmann @EditorMark
  11. The Twitterers led / down garden path sentences / those forced to reread. #GrammarDay
  12. “Step into awesome” / says Hooters. Just more proof that / nounifying’s hot. #grammarday
  13. John stood up and left / just after he resigned / his apartment lease. #GrammarDay #GardenPathHaiku
  14. Tweeters' lack of space,/ time and energy will kill/ the Oxford Comma #grammarday @EditorMark's haiku contest sfy.co/bEzu
  15. John, while Jim had "had" / had "had had"; "had had" had had / way too many "had"'s #GrammarDay
  16. “Exactly the same” / is exactly the same as / “the same,” don’t you see? #grammarday
  17. A little, known fact:/Many people use commas/Ambiguously. #grammarday
  18. @davidmarsh then tweets: "My haiku rhymes with one tweeted at exactly the same moment by @Dottyeyes. They sound rather nice consecutively."
  19. Snow falling gently / and silently as writers / committing typos #grammarday #haikus
  20. Fish fish fish fish fish / Tautologies make for some / quite boring haiku / #GrammarDay
  21. So much depends on / colorless green ideas / sleeping furiously. #grammarday
  22. Should we celebrate / a set of rules that license / some set of strings L ? #GrammarDay #ActuallyADefinitionForGrammar
  23. While at school, I learned // from/with/per/up grammar that // prepositions suck. #grammarday

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