Syntax T-Shirts

'I'm leaving you because of your constant anal nitpicking, which I can no longer put up with....wait...I mean... Up with which, I can no longer put.'

A Puppet Named Juan

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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Punctuation Police

A Copy Editor and His Dog

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!'

"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."

I'm not saying I'm not a hound dog. I'm saying I'm not nothing but a hound dog.

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

You can take the boy out of Wimbledon...

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

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

'Here's something that should suit your wooden acting style. How do you fancy playing the lead in Pinocchio?'

'Who teaches apostrophe usage?'

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

Ice skater

Lessons in Prehistory.

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

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

"Various entrances to the gates of Hell."

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

"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."

'Yes, grammar rules do evolve over time, but making up your own to 'stay ahead of the curve' won't work in this English class!'

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

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

'Second grade. When did you discover 'LMNOP' wasn't one letter?'

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

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

Martial Arts