Rebel with a clause: tales and tips from a roving grammarian

Grammar table road trips

Introduction: A table unfolded

1. A national obsession : the Oxford comma

2. The joy of grammar vocabulary

3. “Affect” and “effect” are mean spelling trolls

4. Corrections, humility, and etiquette

5. Adverbial antics

6. How are you?

7. Bookzuberance

8. Going farther and further

9. Texting grammar

10. Sentimental speller

11. Please____ (lie, lay) down and read this

12. The life, times, and punctuation of the appositive

13. Weird plurals : your data ____ (is/are) givng me a headache

14. Yes, ma'am!

15. Accents keep things fresh

16. The great American spacing war

17. cAPiTaLizAtiON CHAoS

18. Contract with confidence!

19. The pleasure of pronunciation

20. I saw____ (a, an) UFO on Main Street

21. Compound sentences

22. Semicolonphobia!

23. Labyrinthine lists

24. Colonoscopy

25. Comma volume

26. You can read this chapter in five minutes or fewer

27. Possessed by apostrophes

28. Plural possessive holiday extravaganza

29. Peculiar pasts

30. Peripatetic past participles

31. What's passed is past

32. Gerund v. present-participle smackdown

33. Horizontal-line lessons-hyphens and dashes, A-Z

34. Good fun with bad words

35. …

36. Where’s that preposition at?

37. Faces and facets of “they”

38. The precarious case of the pronoun case

39. Whom ya gonna call?

40. Bewitching whiches

41. Punctuation location contemplation

42. Subject-verb synchronicity

43. More than then

44. It’s time for “its"!

45. More homophonous happenings : ‘your” and ‘their”

46. Had had, that that, do do, do be do!

47. The art of writing with your actual hand

48. School days

49. Grammar boogie

Tabletop bibliography : what’s on the grammar table?