Katharine wrote: And to my ability to do my reading. My joy in reading comes to a jarring stop when I hit a sentence corrupted by poor grammar. I've quite more than one novel because the author can't control her possessive pronouns and/or apostrophes. Katharine in N.California (currently doing her best to teach kindergarten children about nouns and verbs) Agreed! Unless it's "deliberately poor" grammar, as in the case of people writing in dialects, bad grammar in a novel turns me off. Run-on strings of prepositional phrases make me personally nutty, too... We digress, I think - but the point is that a solid grasp of grammar seems to enhance one's reading and writing abilities. -patty To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/