Grammar is my teaching and professional learning focus this term. On my iPhone I receive GG or Grammar Girl’s quick and dirty tips podcast and my feed reader delivers Daily Grammar. I am working through the back catalogue on both these feeds, learning almost every step of the way.
This mornings learning included “Only”: The Most Insidious Misplaced Modifier and why The Plural of “Die” Is “Dice,” Not “Dies” or “Douse.” I am a little behind with the Daily Grammar though I have been refining my understanding of adjectives. Not as describing words, but as modifiers. Changing or affecting the meaning of nouns and pronouns; telling us which, whose, what kind, and how many, about the nouns or pronouns they modify. I also learnt about the predicate adjective, well almost. For the students we are looking at using the fantastically fun videos from Grammaropolis. Like this one for Nouns.
Grammar Trivia – Just for fun, did you know, there are seven words in the English language that are always adjectives?
Two phrases I liked, ‘comma-kazi’ and using ‘commas like confetti,’ I think their meaning is self explanatory.
As for the grammar trivia answer: They are the articles a, an, and the and the possessives my, our, your, and their. (The possessives are from the possessive pronoun list but are always used with nouns as adjectives.)
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