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Title: Improving Grammar
Post by: Razgovory on October 03, 2016, 10:40:02 PM
As most of you have noticed, my grammar is atrocious.  I want to remedy this situation but I don't know how.  Any suggestions?  Serious ones, no "go kill yourself" type bullshit. 
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 03, 2016, 10:44:59 PM
 :lol:

Mssrs Strunk and White (https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/dp/020530902X/ref=zg_bs_491394_1)

Less than $5.  Go in peace, my son.
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: Grinning_Colossus on October 03, 2016, 10:45:19 PM
Read books by early-mid 20th century British writers until their style becomes something up with which you cannot put.
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: Tonitrus on October 04, 2016, 01:12:04 AM
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=schoolhouse+rock+grammar
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 04, 2016, 01:49:41 AM
Stop paying attention to it.
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: Razgovory on October 04, 2016, 06:28:10 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 03, 2016, 10:44:59 PM
:lol:

Mssrs Strunk and White (https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/dp/020530902X/ref=zg_bs_491394_1)

Less than $5.  Go in peace, my son.

Got my copy in the desk.
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 04, 2016, 06:56:43 AM
Then stop using it as a coffee cup coaster, and read it.
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: LaCroix on October 04, 2016, 08:07:52 AM
when you aren't sure of something, google it. grammar girl, etc. are great resources. this beats reading some book
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: Razgovory on October 04, 2016, 08:18:43 AM
When I was in school they never taught us how to diagram sentences. :(
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: Grinning_Colossus on October 04, 2016, 08:40:13 AM
This is how you diagram sentences.

Subject?/noun

Verb

Not sure

Secondary subject?/pronoun

Other verb

Definitely object/noun


I'm sure I that learned it at some point, but I forgot it years ago. It doesn't really matter. Grammar only becomes intuitive through repeated exposure, hence the importance of reading books by people whose headmasters would hit them if they misused 'whom.'
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: Monoriu on October 04, 2016, 08:47:57 AM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on October 04, 2016, 08:40:13 AM

I'm sure I that learned it at some point, but I forgot it years ago. It doesn't really matter. Grammar only becomes intuitive through repeated exposure, hence the importance of reading books by people whose headmasters would hit them if they misused 'whom.'

:yes:
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 04, 2016, 10:17:38 AM
Quote from: LaCroix on October 04, 2016, 08:07:52 AM
when you aren't sure of something, google it. grammar girl, etc. are great resources. this beats reading some book

Don't be a dick.
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 04, 2016, 10:21:10 AM
Books are for olds.
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: LaCroix on October 04, 2016, 11:50:35 AM
hate books  :mad:
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: Razgovory on October 04, 2016, 12:51:59 PM
I was hoping for something interactive.
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 04, 2016, 12:53:49 PM
See if Khaaaan! Academy has something.
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: dps on October 04, 2016, 02:58:15 PM
Study Timmay's posts, and do the opposite of what he does.

On a serious note, take a college course.  You can almost certainly find one you can take online.
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: mongers on October 04, 2016, 03:26:12 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 03, 2016, 10:40:02 PM
As most of you have noticed, my grammar is atrocious.  I want to remedy this situation but I don't know how.  Any suggestions?  Serious ones, no "go kill yourself" type bullshit.

You should have gone to a grammar school.  :bowler:
Title: Re: Improving Grammar
Post by: Savonarola on October 04, 2016, 04:03:49 PM
If you truly want to learn grammar Wheelock's Latin (https://www.amazon.com/Wheelocks-Latin-7th/dp/0061997226) (or a similar Latin primer) will teach you everything.