Grammar and I

It was quite sometime that I wanted to write, it’s just that I wanted to put my thoughts in words. Whenever I share it with my friends, the reply I always get is that points are good but watch out for the grammar. I had a big problem in coming up with the title for this. It should be Grammar and Me or Me and Grammar or Grammar and I for that matter?

So the task at hand was to improve my grammar, so went and bought a grammar book. Started reading it and took a verb ‘Must’, he started by saying that it’s a Modal Auxiliary Verb I had to first find out what this Auxiliary Verb was? Then Third Person Singular Usage was discussed. Then came usage in questions and negatives, this was easy, now came using the infinitives and in that: progressive, perfect and passive infinitives. All this was well above my head, but I was able to manage it. The final blow came when I read that “Must has no Infinitive or Participles or Past Tense. I was totally confused and whatever I read just forgot.

Just wonder where in the brain did it go and get stored. When I looked at the table of contents there were other verbs, pronouns, adjectives what not, one thing I understood is Grammar and me are like oil and water we just don’t go together.

I just started wondering, if people ask me, what should I answer. So the first thing that struck me was, Rules are meant to be broken, but that did not convince me, finally I rationalized it by saying to myself that god has not given me a face like Steve Martin in the movie Roxanne which can make people laugh looking at me, let them have a laugh reading my article………