2/13/08

I enjoyed the conciseness of chapters 16-23. It's nice that she chops them up into small, quick reads. It makes it more enjoyable.

I snickered at the section about "irregardless," because I had a high school English teacher that would fail a paper that used it. She claimed that it was not a word, and it was one of her unforgivable infractions. Hah, talk about grammar snobbery...

Now that I'm about halfway through the book, I've started to get a better feel for its rhythm. I'm enjoying the way she teaches about grammar a tad more than I did at the start. I mentioned it felt formulaic for the first few chapters, but the latest ones have seemed to break out of the previous mold of funny story->lesson, funny story->lesson. And hell, I'm learning things every chapter. Granted, I know a lot of what she is teaching, but with respect to parentheses inside of parentheses, ellipses, and that/which, I've been able to pick up quite a bit. I had no idea, for example, that 'which' always needed to be partitioned off with a comma.

Cool...

scooter