National Grammar Day

March 4, 2010 • Jaime Christensen  
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National Grammar Day is celebrated on March 4, and was designed by the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. 

How can you participate?

On March 4 all you have to do is speak well, write well, and spread the word. We want people to think about language and how to use it properly. 

The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar provided 10 grammar tips you should follow for National Grammar Day:

 1.      Me, myself, and I – an intensive or reflexive intensive pronoun; you use it for emphasis, or to refer to yourself as the subject of the sentence.

2.      Is it “good” or “well”? – when using “well’ in a sentence, it describes your state of health; using “good” in a sentence tells everything in your life is just fine.

3.      Less vs. fewer – use “less” when you’re talking about an amount of something that can’t be divided into units; use “fewer” when you’re talking about a quantity that can be divided or measured.

4.      Which vs. that- use “that” for restrictive clauses and “which” for non-restrictive clauses.

5.      i.e vs. e.g – i.e stands for “that is”; e.g stands for “for example”.

6.      affect vs. effect – use “effect” for a verb of change, and “affect” as a noun for clinical settings.

7.      insure vs. ensure – insure specifically means to protect against risk; ensure means to make certain.

8.      To split, or not to split: the truth about split infinitives – an infinitive is a “to” plus a verb. DO NOT split the infinitive by sticking an adverb between the “to” and the verb!

9.      A preposition you can’t refuse – you can’t end a sentence with a preposition.

10.  Conjunction function – DO NOT start a sentence with a conjunction.

           Source: http://nationalgrammarday.com/

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