Grammar

How to Write (and Grade) a Typical English Paper

October 30, 2012

After reading through 30 papers, it’s easy to get lost in the details. Thank goodness for these websites, which remind us how to really think about writing. Strong Bad’s attempt at ghostwriting an English paper McSweeney’s Stamps for Grading Freshman Composition Papers [...]

When Spelling Goes Wrong

September 15, 2012

You get dramatic readings. In this case, a 14-year old gamer named William (aka Axman13) passionately displays his affinity for the highest form of rhetoric. His review of the flash game “Press Space Bar to Win” or PSBW marks the ubiquitous decline of spelling and grammar on the [...]

Comma, Errors

June 28, 2012

If you can make it through reading all of the comma errors in How Stuff Works’ article “10 Completely Wrong Ways to Use Commas,” we’ll give you a gold star. TSHS has one small quibble with this grammar article. In theory, number 6 is correctly cited as an error: *** [...]

Grammar and Dating

May 19, 2011

One of the TSHS members recently mentioned that grammar was a date deal breaker. How do we get through the world today with all of the poor grammar? With colorful comics and sarcastic wonders from places like Hyperbole and a Half. If you are dating a writer, you don’t have to buy a copy [...]