Hug your editor for National Grammar Day. They make you look smart. #GrammarDay #haiku
So there is this mark - it's called the interrobang, and it's all like "Whaaa‽" #GrammarDay from my students
Went to Buffalo Got buffaloed by a few Buffalo bison. #GrammarDay #haiku- Where's that buffalo who buffalos Buffalo buffalos again? #GrammarDay #haiku
Let us not / to the marriage of two clauses / admit a comma splice. #GrammarDay #haiku
Editor-cartoonists don't ever have bad clients— just cartoon fodder #GrammarDay #haiku
"Cards House" and "Thrones Game" if needless words omitted. Know rules to break them. #GrammarDay #haiku- It's "whom to follow" / not "who" -- but whom knows whom or / who now anyway? #GrammarDay
If everyone could write, there would be no need for copyeditors. #grammarday #haiku- Who or whom? Direct objects cause problems; you'll figure it out. #GrammarDay #Haiku
- Working hard, dangling modifiers are tricky. But I can catch them. #grammarday #haiku
Pedants who insist / "Grammar is as grammar was," / lack understanding. #GrammarDay #haiku
Between the "U"s K And S lie sea, tea, dashes, And that last comma #GrammarDay #haiku- Savvy speakers know / "Grammar is as grammar does," / and all understand. #GrammarDay #haiku
- So much depends on a modifier dangling besides the wrong noun. #GrammarDay #haiku
Go comma crazy/drives copy editors nuts/ so satisfying #GrammarDay- This former peever Now recognizes many different registers. #grammarday #haiku
It’s just words, people; “rules” are meant to be played with, twisted, used for fun. #GrammarDay- "Top ten grammar probs" / lists often are not grammar / they're puctuation. #GrammarDay
- #Haiku don't always play by grammatical rules, so why mix the two? #GrammarDay
- Grammar is to style as language is to accent. Prescriptivists sigh. #GrammarDay #haiku
- It's "a historic"; "a" corresponds with sounds first. Please, do not use "an." #GrammarDay #haiku
My sweet Ellipsis. You give me the time I need dot dot dot...to think. #GrammarDay #haiku
Last-minute haiku, tapping out the syllables. Grammar something. Done! #GrammarDay- It's reasonable to end normal sentences with prepositions. #GrammarDay #haiku
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Here is a running tally of entrants into the 2015 National Grammar Day Haiku Contest. Deadline for entry is noon EST March 3, with our expert panel of judges selecting the winning haiku (plural) on March 4, National Grammar Day. Details of the contest are at copydesk.org/blog.
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