In honor of National Grammar Day, I write this post!
Yesterday, as I was leaving my Shakespeare class, my friend and classmate Jessica,told me that today would be National Grammar Day. I, a fellow English teaching dork,told my roommates with excitement later that night. I probably sounded just as enthusiastic as I would have were I talking about some boy (or maybe a particular one). They stared at me blankly of course,then laughed at the English teacher in me. As far as they were concerned, I was probably one of the only people in the world excited about Grammar day.
But I am not alone. I woke up this morning,went to the gym, wrote a paper, and then headed to class, walking with another friend, Miss Dana Glen. We chatted about many things, and just before entering the JFSB dungeon with no cell-phone service, I exclaimed, "oh yeah! Happy Grammar Day!" She smiled and thanked me, going on her way like a normal English person, not an English teaching freak.
Then! It happened! I walked into my niche at BYU--my teaching grammar class, where sitting on the table were frosted cookies boasting exclamation points, question marks, hanging quotation marks, interrobangs, ellipses, periods, commas, and more! Only there was I at home, laughing with those of "my kind." We all get it! And we love it. L.O.V.E. So... Happy Grammar Day!
A QUOTE FROM A STUDENT IN MY CLASS TODAY (he's a guy, fyi):
"Revising is like getting a face lift. Editing is like putting make-up on."
A FEW SITES FOR FUN:
http://eng329ostenson.pbworks.com/FrontPage
http://savethewords.org/
http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/
http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/
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