
I received a press release this morning from a "veteran" English teacher promoting her new book, "My Dog Bites the English Teacher." The press release touts the book as a grammar primer that will help you to improve your college essays and to get a job with your stellar cover letter. However, the author of the press release isn't wowing me with her grammar guru status. A few examples:
But it is. (So the author has a penchant for starting sentences with conjunctions. Yet she says later on that fragments are bad. And that's puzzling to me.)
This gives a negative first impression which can lose you an interview. (This gives a negative first impression that the author does not understand the distinction between "that" and "which.")
Picture this ever so common situation:(It is an ever-so-common problem to forget your hyphens when you are modifying a noun with an adjectival phrase.)
So Anders is on a mission to change the way grammar is taught.(The second part of this sentence smacks of passive voice. Who is teaching this grammar, anyway? I hope not Anders.)