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"Thou shalt have no dangling participles before me."
We passed "How grammatically sound are you?" with "GRAMMAR GOD!" colors. But of course. In our day, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style was our Bible, and they taught things like phonetics and even sentence diagramming. None of that "whole-language" nonsense:
If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you!
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[via Michele at A Small Victory]
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Congratulations on the "Grammar God" designation! But those of us who "knew you when" are not surprised. You were always our Grammar Goddess, and always will be!
Posted by: Lori (Buzzell) Dougherty | April 15, 2004 at 11:56 AM
Hi, Lori . . .
Nice to have you drop by the blog. How'd you find me, fergossake?
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