How’s my grammar?

Did you know that March 4th was National Grammar Day in the US?

National Grammar Day is an event sponsored by the Society for the

Promotion of Good Grammar (SPOGG) and MSN Encarta to encourage “people to think about language and how it can be used best.”

Last fall, SPOGG founder Martha Brockenbrough released a book called Things That Make Us (Sic): The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar takes on Madison Avenue, Hollywood, the White House, and the World that wittily documents and laments instances of poor grammar and includes letters written to high-profile grammar offenders.

If this sounds up your alley, you might also enjoy these titles - some serious, some more lighthearted:

• Eats, shoots, and leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation by Lynn Truss
• Everything You Know About English Is Wrong by Bill Brohaugh
• The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left by David Crystal
• Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey
• Words Fail Us: Good English and Other Lost Causes by Bob Blackburn
  

Now, if you’ll pardon me, I must recheck my grammar in this post.