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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIt's National Grammar Day!
https://nationaltoday.com/national-grammar-day/Put on your grammar nazi armbands, Loungers!
On March 4, we let our inner nerd out for National Grammar Day! The day was established in 2008 by the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. The days motto is: Its not only a date, its an imperative: March forth on March 4 to speak well, write well, and help others do the same!
NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY ACTIVITIES
1. Learn a new grammar rule
Is there a particular grammar rule you always feel like you have to double-check? Use National Grammar Day as your excuse to finally memorize that pesky grammar rule! (One we are always looking up: lay versus lie! How to remember it: you lie down on the sofa, but you lay the book on the table!)
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3. Have a Grammar Party
Invite your friends over for grammar games! Play pin the apostrophe on the its; read out examples of the most hilarious grammar mistakes from the Internet; and stage a discussion on one of the greatest debates in the English language: the Oxford comma, yea or nay?
NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY ACTIVITIES
1. Learn a new grammar rule
Is there a particular grammar rule you always feel like you have to double-check? Use National Grammar Day as your excuse to finally memorize that pesky grammar rule! (One we are always looking up: lay versus lie! How to remember it: you lie down on the sofa, but you lay the book on the table!)
<snip>
3. Have a Grammar Party
Invite your friends over for grammar games! Play pin the apostrophe on the its; read out examples of the most hilarious grammar mistakes from the Internet; and stage a discussion on one of the greatest debates in the English language: the Oxford comma, yea or nay?
Anybody up for a Lounge grammar party? Yea or nay?
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It's National Grammar Day! (Original Post)
lastlib
Mar 2019
OP
Showing my age, I actually remembered a Schoolhouse Rock song to get an answer
oregonjen
Mar 2019
#3
Lochloosa
(16,066 posts)1. DU has a Grammer Day everyday....
lastlib
(23,248 posts)7. Love it!!
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Thanks, Major!
Thanks, Major!
Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)4. actually
it's every day. two words.
Harker
(14,024 posts)9. Time for a little Buddy Holly.
Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)13. great tune, but
still a misuse of "everyday"
Harker
(14,024 posts)14. Any excuse for a bit of Buddy.
Lochloosa
(16,066 posts)11. ....
oregonjen
(3,338 posts)3. Showing my age, I actually remembered a Schoolhouse Rock song to get an answer
to a question. Does anyone remember Interjection? 😀 We play Jeopardy on our Alexa and a grammar question popped up, and my mind immediately went to the catchy tune to get the answer.
missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)5. "Generally set apart from a sentence by an explanation point. . .
. . . or by a comma when the feelings not as strong.
oregonjen
(3,338 posts)6. Yes!
Shrek
(3,981 posts)8. I can't find "explanation point" on my keyboard
oregonjen
(3,338 posts)10. Hah, I didn't catch that! 🤪
Of course I would screw up in a grammar thread! I blame Siri.