Grammar Gaullimafry
Being a collection of personal essays on why grammar makes no sense at all and the best way to learn it is to ignore a lot of the rules, although some of them are okay.
- Tidepooling, Tetherballing, and Other Verbified Nouns Mariko Powers insists that nouns can live long and happy lives as verbs.
- Grammar Satisfaction comes for Natty Hawley when she corrects others.
- The Paroghy of the English Language invites Harlan Kane to speculate about how to infiltrate the dictionaries of America.
- The Devil is in the Pronouns according to Leela Kalow, who explains why pronouns confuse nearly as often as they clarify.
- The Effectiveness of Passives Chris Souvey's defense of the passive voice.
- Because I Said So Talia Landes notes the failure of her grammar school to teach her grammar.
- Write Like a Maan, in which Aza Steel discovers that biology isn't the only thing separating the sexes.
- A 'Collective' of Nouns Melaku Assegued's exploration of how to properly group animals, people, and things.
- How I Learned to Run Cassandra Babcock explains how run-on sentences changed her life.
- Yes or No? Heidi Ramee would like to talk to her fourth grade teacher about the proper use of because.
- Of Grammar Mattie Millar's exploration of the inconsistencies of spelling.
- The Like Monster a dissection of the overly and improperly used like by Tori Schweyer.
- Me, Myself, and I Alex Foy's commentary on pronoun usage.
- Draft Two When is a number a word? Sara Winsemius has an idea.
Grammar Gallimaufry is a compilation of essays on the vagaries and vicissitudes of grammar as composed by students in Jeff House's personal writing course, L’essai. The class is conducted at Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School. Comments are always welcomed.