Friday, December 2, 2011

Here's a web site of oft-forgotten lore
As I nodded weak and weary over my volume of "Garner's Modern American Usage," my hands dropped onto the computer keyboard and serendipitously typed in the URL of UsingEnglish.com, which has a great grammar glossary. This is a site for ESL students but it answered several of the questions I had on verb tenses in one of the articles I was editing.

But I'm not saying, "Nevermore," to Bryan A. Garner. His book remains the last word in this class on usage. So if you come rapping, gently tapping or even fling open a shutter with many a flirt and flutter to argue some point of grammar, I will shriek "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore" and cling to my Garner's.

But that web site sure is handy.

Check out this version of "The Raven:"
 

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