Something I Promise not to Do

First panel. People who do this are sometimes called “grammar nazis.”

(I’m sorry, but Comics Kingdom links are bad) The comic is down a ways in this Comic Strip of the Day post: https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/07/06/csotd-the-lion-always-gets-his-share/

And actually, in this case he’s defending a spurious rule. That “to” is an adverb at the end of the sentence, part of a separable verb. It’s not a preposition, even though it looks like one.

I’ll save the lesson in the next-to-last panel for another day.

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—That I don’t recognize. The comments revealed it to me. I’m guessing we have a guessable email address of a Treasure Island character. What’s your opinion?

This comic has to be at least 60 years old. First panel—actually, “she” is correct, but nobody says it that way anymore.

With a form of “to be,” you have a predicate nominative, so “she.” But it’s where direct objects go in sentences with action verbs, and “her” is what people hear most of the time, so that’s what they say.

More historical versions of our alphabet exist, but this is a nice picture of six of them.

That site has a lot of interesting charts, usually not free.

No lesson today, just some excessive rhyming.