Random Grammar Rage
Drink. Drank. Drunk.
When you write, "I've drank a lot of water today," it hurts me a little inside.
Same goes for "swim." "I've never swam in the ocean" gnaws at my corneas. Please stop it.
If I ever find out who was responsible for the gradual removal of English grammar from American public school curricula, there will be time travel and bloodshed. In the meantime, I'm going to see about attaching a handle to my copy of Fowler's in order to increase its effectiveness as a bludgeon.
Someday I'll make the evening news by snatching scores of verb-abusers off the streets and forcing them to diagram sentences in my secret warehouse hideout. Some will think me a villain; others, a hero. But all will know me as...
The Grammar Vigilante.
*cue opening guitar chords*
When you write, "I've drank a lot of water today," it hurts me a little inside.
Same goes for "swim." "I've never swam in the ocean" gnaws at my corneas. Please stop it.
If I ever find out who was responsible for the gradual removal of English grammar from American public school curricula, there will be time travel and bloodshed. In the meantime, I'm going to see about attaching a handle to my copy of Fowler's in order to increase its effectiveness as a bludgeon.
Someday I'll make the evening news by snatching scores of verb-abusers off the streets and forcing them to diagram sentences in my secret warehouse hideout. Some will think me a villain; others, a hero. But all will know me as...
The Grammar Vigilante.
*cue opening guitar chords*