This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter/isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter!

One of the teachers gave this to me, and I found it funny.

Grammar Made Easy In

Twenty-Three Steps

or How to Rite Rite

1) Don't abbrev.

2) Check to see if you any words out.

3) Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.

4) About sentence fragments.

5) When dangling, don't use participles.

6) Don't use no double negatives.

7) Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

8) Just between you and I, case is important.

9) Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.

10) Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.

11) Its important to use apostrophe's right.

12) It's better not to unecessarily split an infinitive.

13) Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.

14) Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should begin with a capital and end with a period

15) Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.

16) In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart.

17) Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our language.

18) Verbs has to agree with their subjects.

19) Avoid unecessary redundancy.

20) A writer mustn't shift your point of view.

21) Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.

22) A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.

23) Avoid cliches like the plague.

I figured I could post it, since the Steven Curtis Chapman/Chris Tomlin concert I was going to go to tonight in Sacramento is (as of an hour ago) is not going to happen. Jeanne and Heather (Jeanne's sister) were nervous about the weather on the way back, since we'd be getting back around midnight. I can imagine that Mr. Libby wouldn't be thrilled with the thought that two of his teachers may not be in on Monday with no lesson plans available. Sigh.

Hope you enjoyed this list! The lyrics in the title come from a great Gilbert and Sullivan patter song called "My Eyes are Fully Open" from the opera Ruddigore. It has since been put into The Pirates of Penzance frequently, and was the melody used in Thoroughly Modern Millie for "The Speed Test."