I like grammar. I think that to effectively communicate your feelings, opinions, and knowledge you also will have to be able to adequately use grammar. I can’t stand when someone calls me out on using poor grammar because I think it makes people look uneducated when they do not use it correctly.

I think the most difficult thing about grammar is using colons and semi-colons. All of the rules surrounding those things all get mashed together in my mind. On top of that throwing things like “complex sentence, compound sentence, predicate adjective, predicative nominative, and objects” into the mix only makes it more confusing.

Additionally, I feel like in every class that I have been the teacher has had their own set of little rules that they consider to be canon, and then the next year the next teacher goes all Martin Luther and decides they know better.

I think if we as a society decided to use one set of rules then that would make things a little bit easier. Until then… the dash will continue to be my best friend. I also wish that there were not so many rules to so many different things, but I suppose that is just the English language.

Brief refreshers of . , ? – ; : would not be a bad idea in addition to Who, whom and those sorts of things.

My grammar pet peeve: when people do not correctly use good and well.