The little grammar book we swear by

As Indians, our education system has been predominantly British, until the American media chose to push over the stiff lipped English for the more conversational American colloquialism. Talk of our daily battles with Microsoft word and its penchant for crying foul on our spellings.

For those of us who remember the harrowing days of pouring over the Wren and Martin for the English grammar class, Strunk and White, the little grammar book was a revelation. I loved the book for its easy prescriptive ways, forgetting the oft repeated warning of our elders: Easy come-easy go.

But then, it was an addiction.

Apparently, its 50 years of Strunk and White and people are paying homage to the book. However, there was that little something inside me that said that all was not well with Strunk and White – A sort of uneasy feeling you can’t quite put a finger on - like you know you are supposed to be happy about your best friend topping the class, but you don’t quite...

And then, I found this article that kind of explains to me why I probably scored lower on my verbal part of GMAT than the quant part – an impossible task – I could never do better in quant than anything else!

Here’s to: 50 years of Stupid Grammar Advice