In honor of National Grammar Day … it IS “March Fourth” after all … do you have any grammar books? Punctuation? Writing guidelines? Style books?
More importantly, have you read them?
How do you feel about grammar in general? Important? Vital? Unnecessary? Fussy?
Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the comments—or if you prefer, leave your answers in the comments themselves!
Love this question!
http://www.readingatthebeach.com/2010/03/btt.html
Oh, grammar! Not grammer!
http://madbibliophile.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/booking-through-thursday-28/
I’m not good at grammar…
http://addlife21.blogspot.com/2010/03/so-hows-your-grammar.html
You’ll find mine here:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/graduates
I’m afraid someone will find grammatical errors, but here’s my post anyway.
Oh hey, I’m back! Here is my answer for this week’s question. Cheers all!
I like this!
http://readbookswritepoetry.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-grammar.html
http://iwriteinbooks.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/btt-march-forth/
Here’s my response today – http://justbookreading.com/2010/03/04/booking-through-thursday-grammar/.
Grammar is the foundation of language, so you’d better love it or learn to!
Here’s my short, fussy answer:
http://jlshall.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday-grammar.html
Absolutely love this question: http://intetextualchronicles.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday-grammar.html
I love this question! HappyNational Grammar Day!
http://www.michellesmastermusings.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday-grammar.html
National Grammar Day — I had not idea!
Here is my response:
http://mycozybooknook.blogspot.com/2010/03/btt-national-grammar-day.html
National Grammar Day – what a fabulous idea! My answer is here.
Oh, you had to go and open that can of worms! http://www.teacherninjas.com/2010/03/dont-get-me-started-on-grammar.html
Lucking readers, my answer was written sans coffee and in a rush. http://www.rundpinne.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday-grammar.html
I have seen debates on this subject before and only on a community fun site, lol
http://teawithmarce.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday-grammar.html
Here is mine http://readinginthenorth.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday-grammar.html
Ha! I wrote my post last night, before I knew this was the topic here for today: http://wordlily.com/2010/03/04/national-grammar-day-grammar-books/
My answer is here:
http://barbarah.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/booking-through-thursday-grammar/
I haven’t played in awhile, but I jumped back in today! My answer is here
Here is my answer;
http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-grammar.html
http://bibliophilist.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/btt-grammar/
This was the perfect question to allow me to have my grammatical diatribe. I love proper grammar!
http://literarilyspeaking1.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday-grammar.html
Interesting!
http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/booking-through-thursday-grammar/
~MizB
I love this question. It actually comes up with my friends and I fairly regularly.
My response is here.
I still wake up at night in a cold sweat from having to read and take quizzes on the AP Style Guide…
http://nashvillebookworm.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/booking-through-thursday-grammar/
When I am chatting and make a grammar mistake it will stick with me the rest of the day – like an itch. I feel like one of my poor English teachers are rolling over!
Here’s my answer:
http://www.bibliobabe.com/
Yes I do! http://amusedbybooks.blogspot.com/2010/03/grammar.html
Happy NGD
Here’s mine.
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2010/03/in-honor-of-national-grammar-day-it-is.html
Here’s mine.
I think you’ve caught our attention with this one! Here is my fussbudget answer: http://www.rosecityreader.com/2010/03/get-it-right.html
It is almost more than I can do to use “you’ve” — I am trying to make an effort to use contractions in informal writing. So you have an idea of what my answer will be.
Here’s mine. Great topic!
http://trishaj.blogspot.com/2010/03/thursday-meme.html
Great questions!
here’s my BTT.
http://blog.readinggroupchoices.com/content/blog/barbara/10/march/writing-style-grammer-and-punctuation-important
mine http://vampira2468.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/grammar-time/
Here’s my answer:
http://fangirlsview.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday-march-4rth.html
Hopefully my response doesn’t leave me looking like a burro.
Here’s mine!
http://pamr.blogspot.com/2010/03/grammar.html
As a copyeditor, grammar is vital to my existence!
http://c2rcc.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/btt-national-grammar-day/
Grammar is important.
My answer is up.
And here’s mine! Great questions!
http://fictionfusion.blogspot.com/2010/03/national-grammar-day-bbt.html
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Here’s mine:
http://fictionfanatic.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/btt-grammar/
Whoa, a total pet peeve of mine brought to light! I have several good books to recommend.
http://mamalibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday-grammar.html
Been ages since I did a BTT:
http://stuck-in-a-book.blogspot.com/2010/03/grammar-day.html
Hooray for Thursday! Here’s my answer!
http://bookreadingbookworm.blogspot.com/2010/03/tgit-thank-goodness-its-thursday.html
I love me some good grammar.
http://unrulyreader.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday-grammar.html
[...] Thursday and you know what that means…another edition of Booking Through Thursday is [...]
Bad grammar makes me [sic]. (I saw that on a t-shirt once and fell in lurve! LOL)
My BTT is up…better late than never.
BTT: News Bulletin: Grammar Brutally Murdered, Suspects Still at Large
Love it! Sorry I’m so late to the game today but here’s my answer: http://carolinebookbinder.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday.html
Here’s mine!
http://confuzzledbooks.blogspot.com/2010/03/booking-through-thursday-nongrammar.html
Fire & Ice Booking Through Thursday
http://wing-heart.org/books/?p=996
Here’s my reply!
Good question.
A day late but here’s mine:
http://notinthepink.com/2010/03/05/a-day-late-btt-grammar/
Late again, but here it is! http://sandcastlesgreenballoons.blogspot.com/2010/03/in-honor-of-national-grammar-day-it-is.html
I am late….and I’ve switched blogs. (it’s my food blog), So before you read my answer, you have to listen to a little food rambling.
Great question tho!
These questions are always so interesting!
Yes…I do have some grammar/writing/style books. I’m a writer/editor at work (sometimes!) and I use the Chicago style manual a lot (although I find it so hard to navigate). Every once in a while I find something I didn’t know…and I’m always double-checking things like where punctuation marks fall next to quotation marks, or whether certain words are articles, prepositions or conjunctions when I’m capitalzing words in titles. I’ve also started using dictionary.com a lot, not as much for spelling as for things like checking the true meaning of words or phrases. (Last week, it was ‘fulsome.’)
I also have The Elements of Style, and a couple of business writing books. I can’t say that I’ve read them, but I do refer to them (so I’ve read bits of them).
Do I think grammar is important? Absolutely, but I also think it shouldn’t be a straightjacket. I think you can use ‘poor’ grammar in casual speech or writing, and I also think think that stuffy, over-studied grammar is something up with which we should not put (to paraphrase Winston Churchilll, or someone like him).