Just for Fun….
Fellow blogger Kiwi.writer posted an interesting fact, one which has fascinated me for many years. In the English language, there are no true rhymes for the words month, orange, silver, and purple. In a (to me) humourous attempt to “debunk” this assertion, I wrote the following poem. I was walking in the twilight last month, […]
The Car That Ran the Light Hit Some People Who Were in the Crosswalk
The Grammar Guru’s teeth grind when she hears someone say “people that.” This rule is simple: A person is always a who, never a that. Despite its simplicity, this is one of the most often violated rules of grammar. I have seen this error in many well-respected publications. Part of the problem is that authorities are […]
It Seems That the Who/Whom Dilemma Still Affects Some of Us…
Who is the subjective or nominative case of the word; in plain English, who acts as a subject or predicate nominative…most of the time. I don’t know who you are. Who steals my purse steals trash. Whom is objective case; that is, it must be an object. It will follow a preposition or a verb […]