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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