Grammar Article 1

Sitting in the library and then I seen a car drive by.

 

 I just made two grammar mistakes in one sentence, did you notice? Now keep in mind, I don't have the best grammar so if there is a mistake made in the rest of this post just smile and go along with it. The author, Ben Yagoda, has written an article in THE WEEK “7 grammar rules you really should pay attention to” and recently wrote another article for THE WEEK about bogus grammar “rules” that you don’t need to follow. I think it’s safe to say that he knows what he is talking about but in my opinion, this article isn’t that necessary.

The grammar rules/examples that Yagoda gives sound like the sort of things that only an idiot would say.

“He seen saw it coming”

The more I write this post, the more I see that this article is more about when people write as opposed to when people talk.

 

 

 

It would be nice if I could end my post on a good note but that’s no fun. Upon closer examination of the examples, I found one that is completely wrong. Yagoda writes

“If an intruder were was here last night, he would have left footprints, so let's look at the ground outside.”

But “were” would be the correct word to use. “Were” is the PAST tense of “was” and in the example sentence, the speaker is talking about the night BEFORE. That happened in the past so he should have used the past tense (If I’m wrong please tell me that was I don’t sound like an idiot in the future).