How Loose is Your Grammar Goose?

For anyone who knows MeLissa well, you know where this post is going - have a look at the link above - a grammar refresher is never a bad thing. For those of you who do not, pull up a chair. :)

MeLissa is and probably always will be a grammar nut. Whether due to her training by some of the toughest English teachers in the world, (Thank you Mrs. Fink and Mrs. Jackson!) or due to her stint grading senior highschoolers' English theses for a little spending money during Christmas break while in college, MeLissa is pretty focused on using appropriate grammar. Now, we're not saying that she doesn't ever make grammatical errors, but we're guessing if someone were to really scour the posts on this site, there wouldn't be too many grammatical garbles partially because MeLissa keeps the grammar gods appeased by rereading posts periodically to ensure that there are no errors!

That said, the link above goes to a great article on proper grammar usage. It's reminiscent of MeLissa's lesson to her three marketing class sections back in college. Ah, good times....for MeLissa. The students probably just wanted to leave early (especially the ones in the 8 a.m. classes), but what fun would that have been? A discussion on the difference between two, too, and to starts the day off right! We wouldn't want you to feel too angry that you received two marks off for the improper use of apostrophes after all.

Along this line of thinking and in relation to the number of grammatical errors that can be found in the text here, one thing we're guessing you can find is a number of names ending in -s that only have an apostrophe after them. The reason? After years and years of waging an uphill battle, MeLissa finally succumbed to pressure due to the sheer number of people who argued that names ending in "s" are made possessive by adding only an apostrophe. Never again! MeLissa will never more falter in asserting that other than the names Jesus and Moses "'s" is the way to go!