Grammar Sticklers Mugs

"The state of graduates literacy levels is shoking and both my colleegs agrree that there maths isn't much better."

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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

I will study my speling words...

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

Punctuation Police

Someone who knows apostrophes

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

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

Smith Academy. A Tradition of Excellense.

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

"Nuts to you, too."

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

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

Lessons in Prehistory.

"Sorry I'm late. I overslept." "Is that even a real word?"

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

Desert $2.75. See? -- It wasn't a typo.

"So, hw ws yr smmr?"

Contemporary English Lesson: The Cat was Sat on the Mat.

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

"Well there's no way I'm going to say 'whom'!"

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

Harv's general clumsiness with prepositions comes back to haunt him.

"I've just invented the question mark."

Sometimes Y Turn

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

Ironing Punctuation

The First Sentence Fragment: 'Hey, don't -'

"We're developing a plan to fix this."

THE REPORT: Some of this is brilliant, but that can be fixed.

'Do it write the first time.'

Fred interpreted the word compact as a verb, not as an adjective.

"Call me, Ishmael."

"If you want to sing in our band, you'll have to overcome your fear of using double negatives."