March fourth! I learned on the radio today that it's National Grammar Day. So, onward, all, gird your dangling participles, and seize the day! Take a semi-colon to lunch! Watch for wandering antecedents (and uncle-cedents, too,) and remember, as Winston Churchill is said to have said, "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put!" And for your National Grammar Day celebrations, here's some Grammar Rock:Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here!Like ragtime? swing? Here's Conjunction Junction.Oh! Interjections!HT: KFOG and Tim

Lisa Fullam is professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She is the author of The Virtue of Humility: A Thomistic Apologetic (Edwin Mellen Press).

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