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My Fondest Punctuation

Hot for Grammar? Teacher has some new tricks.

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Jul 11, 2024
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My linguist friend Geoffrey Pullum has a new book out, The Truth about English Grammar.

Holy shit, the truth? I might not be able to handle it.

I asked Geoff where my traditional grammar indoctrination had gone wrong. “All of it,” he stipulated. “For example, remember how your teachers taught you: a noun is a person, place, or thing?”

Yes, yes, that was definitely on the grade school quiz.

“But what about a word like absence?” Geoff asked. “It is none of those three! Rubbish!”

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