Syntax Enthusiast Gifts

Here lays John Spinks - Scholar and Pedant who fought and lost his last battle against misuse of 'Lay' a transitive verb.

"Is this the grammar lover's club?"

"Don't split your infinitives with me, squire!"

"Be or be not. There is no question."

Someone who knows apostrophes

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

"Oh, look- French! Let's try it."

"I know! I know! I K-n-o-w!. . . Um, what was the question?"

'Whoooa,MAN,check out this STORM! It's PELTING down!'

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

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

'Amscray,fuzzbrain - no carnivores allowed

Lessons in Prehistory.

'Stick them up...'

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

Henry the amazing talking dog.

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

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

'This is the fun part...waiting to find out just what we've ordered.

'I hope you ain't got no tax up here!'

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

'I'm afraid it wouldn't work out, Kevin. You say 'data is' and I say 'data are'.'

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

Two vending machines for fisherman: 'Live Bait' next to 'Dead as a Doornail Bait'

'Alphabet soup? What's alphabet?'

Say it with flowers - available in any language.

Ironing Punctuation

His Hers Pers Vis Xyrs Hirs TBD

Present Tense/Present Simple/Present Progressive/Present Perfect/Present Past.

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

'Do it write the first time.'

'That's not what I meant by 'IV'.'