I know that I have officially entered the time of life when I begin sentences with, “Well, in my high school we learned English, parsing sentences and studying grammar! They don’t do that anymore, do they?”
But, jeepers, does everyone ignore these simple rules because of expediency, ignorance or simple obstinacy? I really want to know!
Noun-verb disagreements, sentence fragments, dangling participles, tense shifts… It makes me crazy. Comma splices, run-on sentences, I really could rant for an hour.
So tell me: Am I a dinosaur?
