A little humor makes learning most anything fun even grammar. I came upon this site which offered a list of amusing grammar rules. Have your student go through the list and see if they can pinpoint the problem. Enjoy!
HUMOROUS GRAMMAR RULES
1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. Winston Churchill, corrected on this error once, responded to the young man who corrected him by saying "Young man, that is the kind of impudence up with which I will not put!
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies endlessly over and over again
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren't always necessary and shouldn't be used to excess so dont.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not always apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous and can be excessive
14. All generalizations are bad.
15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
Find a more extensive list of Humorous Grammar rules HERE
Dena Wood is a homeschooling mom to five children, ages 19-5, and resides
in eastern WA State. She is co-owner of Trigger Memory Systems (home
of Times Tales!) and works as Customer Service and Schoolhouse Store
manager for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. She also does a bit of
freelance writing when she gets the chance.
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