Grammar Police Gifts

'Not me. You go tell him it's misspelled.'

Grumpy old man kicking exclamation mark.

'More might have turned up, Sir, if you had put the apostrophe in the correct place...'

"Your father's upset because I've been autocorrecting him."

"Sorry, Gary, I only date guys who know the difference between your, you're and yore."

"You're such a know-it-all, I don't even know what you and I have in common."

"I'm sorry, you overused all caps."

We have skule clothes.

"Somebody? Anyone? Surely one of you can form a sentence without the word 'like' in it!"

A Puppet Named Juan

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

I will study my speling words...

Punctuation Police

A Copy Editor and His Dog

School Cafeteria. It's the start of the school year. The Geometry teacher will come by to verify that we're serving truly square meals. The grammar teacher says the alphabet soup is runny and needs some punctuation added. History teachers keep a record of all the past meals and so will notice any leftovers being served. And the computer lab staff expressed concern about all the cookies so the astronomy teacher suggested switching to candy for dessert. I'll bet she thinks Starburst and Milk

'Why can't we have a texting bee?'

Someone who knows apostrophes

"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

'The Questioner'

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

Smith Academy. A Tradition of Excellense.

"The Chicken: Just another body type that shouldn't be permitted to wear yoga pants."

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

"He's sworn never to say Boudicca, ShrOwsbury, whoM, or narrative."

Lessons in Prehistory.

"Let's fall in love and live in the subjunctive."

Conflating Science and Grammar. The boy threw the ball. What grammatical role does "ball" play in this sentence? An object in motion!

'Who teaches apostrophe usage?'

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

"Nuts to you, too."

'Curious how all four previous employers spelt 'exceptional' with just an 'x'.'