I hate grammar. I failed my grammar test in 8th grade English. And did I tell you that I'm getting a Master's to teach English to Middle School/High School students? I'm taking a test this coming Saturday to be certified to teach English. And here I am, stuck in a rut again with grammar. I would like to share with you my favorite grammar lesson yet from The Basic Cozy Grammar Course, which I found on a google search.
"Marie is out by the wood pile chopping and splitting wood with an axe. "Just as this piece of firewood was divided into two parts, so a sentence is divided into two parts - the subject and the predicate." The subject tells what the sentence is about and the predicate tells something about the subject. As she gathers up an armful of kindling she defines what constitutes a subject and a predicate, then makes her way from the woodpile into the house where she slips off her shoes and slides into her slippers, stocks up the wood bin on the hearth, feeds the hungry fire and settles into her rocking chair, all the while providing us with examples of subjects and predicates culled from sample sentences."
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