grammar

Ha, I used to hate diagramming sentences. Check out the diagram for one of Palin's sentences from the Katie Couric interview. But George Bush has already proven you don't need to speak English properly to be in a position of power.

Quoted: There are plenty of people out there—not only English teachers but also amateur language buffs like me—who believe that diagramming a sentence provides insight into the mind of its perpetrator.

Quoted: Английская грамматика на MyStudy.ru. Онлайн справочник по грамматике английского языка, теоретическая и практическая грамматика.

Sorta reminds me of the punctuation puzzle: Jones where Smith had had had had had had had had had had had the instructors approval

Quoted: Believe it or not, this sentence is grammatically correct and has meaning: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” First devised by professor William ...

In belated celebration of grammar day...

"There is data available" and "There are data available" are both correct.

Quoted: Today, data is used in English both as a plural noun meaning “facts or pieces of information” (These data are described more fully elsewhere) and as a singular mass noun meaning “information”: Not much data is available on flood control in Brazil.

What a freaking small world -- the columnist I work with at Encarta just forwarded me this Chicago Tribune article about the holiday she started, National Grammar Day (and her organzation SPOGG) -- and the Trib writer is a friend I went to college with and worked with on the student newspaper! Weird!!!!!

Quoted: I will have mixed feelings next week on National Grammar Day, March 4.

אוצר ענק של ביטויים בעברית. גם אם חשבת שאתה יודע הכל, היכון להפתעות: יש עוד.

A book about diagramming sentences. I don't know about everyone else, but back in eighth grade, I *loved* diagramming sentences.

This book delves into the history of it, as well as discusses everything related to it. I heard an interview on NPR with the author about the book, and as seemingly boring a subject diagramming sentences may be, this one looks interesting.

Quoted: Amazon.com: The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed: Books: Karen Elizabeth Gordon by Karen Elizabeth Gordon