Chapter 1

The part of this chapter that I liked was the first page in dealing with the sudy of grammar. I found the paragraph about how we could connect with between the grammar lessons that we have learned and the ones that were learned by Greek and Roman schoolboys long ago. I also liked learning about when the first text book was published and how most grammar books stem from that first book nowadays. I also enjoyed seeing a defintion that explained what grammar is. I liked reading about regionalsims. There is so much different American dialects. In the south they say you all or you'll, in parts of Philadelphia you hear youse and in the Applicahain region you hear you-uns. Lastly, I liked reading about ain't. I never knew that ain't was part of the English conversational language back in the seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. Nowadays, using ain't is seen as uneducated or ignorant. I personally don't believe this, I think that we as a culture are lazy with our speech. When I hear someone say ain't I just think that they want to be cool or are too lazy to say anything else.

I leave you all with this...
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."